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State Farm Employees Ready for Rohnert Park Shutdown

The insurance giant will leave Rohnert Park by the end of the month.

More than 100 State Farm employees are leaving the Rohnert Park branch of the insurance giant, which has been a staple in the local economy, employing 450 people (many of whom are local residents), for the last 34 years, the Press Democrat is reporting today.

State Farm Insurance announced it would shutter its sprawling 33-acre campus late last year, citing growing office vacancy, new technological advances and economic hard times.

"Roughly 350 out of 450 workers in the Rohnert Park office were offered the choice of relocating," the article stated. "Through June and into July the number deciding to leave has swung between 122 and 234, depending on the day."

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The article quoted Robert Eyler, director of Sonoma State University’s Regional Center for Economic Analysis.

'“The economic impact is pretty obvious: you’re going to have people who are no longer living locally, which means they won’t be spending money here,”' Eyler told the Press Democrat.

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'“The social impact is going to be reduced volunteer hours, reduced charitable contributions, reduced tax revenue from those folk for schools. That’s basically the hole,”' Eyler reportedly said.

Editor's note: stay tuned for a series of profiles this month on how the insurance giant's departure will impact three employees.


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