I offered a suggestion. She offered since she could afford a long commute everyone can.
Short of bus service there's no public transportation near Addison. It is surrounded by highways though. Odds are the vast majority of employees drive to work.
Palatine is 15 miles to the north, CACH 20 to the south, Bedford /Franklin/Northbrook all roughly the same to the east.
Now what the OP didn't provide, other than his dissatisfaction, was are the possibility of driving to those buildings actually a burden to all the employees at Addison? How many actually live near there? Are any of the alternate buildings actually closer?
As I stated the company is honoring the contract and allowing affected employees to chose by seniority where they'd like to go. In today's day and age they could have just as easily taken a bulldozer to the place and handed out pink slips. As far as being able to afford to commute where's the suggestions of carpooling and other methods of reducing the expense? Part timers generally start and finish at the same time so how hard would it be to organize something ? Apparently complaining is much easier.