For Toyota and its workers, the road to Texas is paved with uncertainties. As the automaker prepares to consolidate its far-flung engineering, sales, marketing, finance and corporate operations into a new North American headquarters near Dallas over the next few years, it's wrestling with a knotty set of challenges: retaining enough of its employees to ensure a smooth transition, realigning job functions across various divisions and keeping up morale as anxious workers await word on their new job descriptions and pay scales.
Toyota, known for a corporate culture that encourages salaried employees to consider their jobs lifelong careers, is offering what many call a generous lump sum as an incentive to workers who agree to make the move and stay in Plano, Texas, for two years.
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