Unhappy with the lack of cultural integration between Sprint and Nextel since the companies' fateful
merger several years ago,
new CEO Dan Hesse -- who conveniently already lives in Kansas, having come from
Embarq -- is moving corporate headquarters from Reston, Virginia back to Kansas City suburb Overland Park. While 4,400 peeps currently inhabit the Reston location (which it inherited as Nextel's former HQ), the Overland Park campus already employs a much larger base of 13,000. The chief says that Sprint will maintain a "significant" presence out in its Reston offices, but the big boys and girls in the boardroom are going to find themselves back in the land of Toto, tornadoes, and
Garmin in the not-too-distant future.
[Via
mocoNews]
