"admirable business decision" . . . no, but a business decision ? yes.
If you are looking for anything resembling compassion from them, well you really are dreaming aren't you, if you are looking for a company to make a decision that may screw up your plans to live somewhere ,but possibly keep your job in the meantime at least, that is more likely.
I will be surprised if anyone involved in SNN is not offered the chance to transfer elsewhere with the number of new aircraft due, but I would not be shocked of course if proved wrong.
Anyone that knows the beast shouldn't really be shocked by anything they do, the rest of you seem to be blind to the reality of how they think & operate.
I don't necessarily agree with much of what they do, but you certainly can't accuse them of straying very far from their chosen modus operandi.