<i>&gt; relocating to somewhere like Dublin </i><p>Afaik Facebook is still overwhelmingly based in Dublin, employing three times as many as in the UK. They likely hire in the UK the bare minimum they really need. So yeah, they&#x27;ve already &quot;relocated&quot; really.<p>This is the same for pretty much any European corporation, btw. Anyone who could leave for cheaper shores, did so in the &#x27;00s. What is left are the essential crews strictly necessary to the job of tapping one of the richest consumer markets on the planet.<p>The &quot;employment threat&quot; is basically toothless nowadays anyway, because &quot;new economy&quot; numbers are ridiculous in the great scheme of things -- 350 jobs won&#x27;t change much of anything.