Mitsubishi Motors isn't relocating its North American headquarters from beachy Southern California to suburban Nashville just to save money and cozy up to alliance partner Nissan, which made the move there more than a decade ago.
The smallest of Japanese automakers in the U.S. is also reinventing its work culture — down to the coffee.
The company is leaving behind its campus in Cypress, Calif., just miles from Seal Beach, for leaner digs in friendly Franklin, Tenn., as part of a broad corporate strategy of turning the diminished brand into more of a nimble startup, quickly dispensing with old practices that aren't working in favor of new ones that take some inspiration from tech culture trends.