Media Coverage
Source: Wall Street Journal
Media Coverage
10.07.12
In August, Whelan moved his family to Nashville, Tennessee from Washington, D.C., so he could oversee the creation of an operations center for Pillsbury’s 700 lawyer firm. The operations center will ultimately house 160 workers, with the idea to combine teams that perform the same tasks. According to Whelan, Pillsbury hopes this will produce better results than having workers spread out in offices across the country.
“We had people in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., doing billing,” Whelan said. “Collaboration and coordination just don’t work as well.”
The relocation to Nashville offers significant savings on rent and salaries, he said. Pillsbury also can tap into the area’s college educated workforce to fill slots left empty by employees who declined to relocate.