This is happening at the national level too. Businesses are leaving the US, or expanding operations overseas instead of here, because of poor tax policy.
Conservatives put their faith in mechanization, automation, computerization and robotics to eliminate such jobs completely ~ starting with middle-management!
As we speak, a relative, one of the wiz kids of defense contracting, is on a world walk-about to establish his headquarters and manufacturing outside the US. He will still sell toys to the USDOD through black budget contracts but he will be free of the "accumulation-of-wealth" restraints currently being practiced by the Obama administration.