The business friendly environment of Ireland has prompted Google to increase its European Headquarters presence there to 600, up 75%, over the next few years. The company's office, based in the country's capital, Dublin, is the company's largest garrison outside the U.S. Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt said its decision was based on the high caliber of European university graduates available as well as the country's unusually low corporate tax rate. Google has reduced its tax rate from about 39% in 2004 to 31% through the first nine months of 2005--due to its ability to credit profits to its new Irish operations. "We have found that the quality of the Irish work force has enabled us to improve our products and services in a way that has proven to be highly beneficial for our customers, both users and advertisers," Google's European director of online sales and operation was quoted as saying by the AP. The company has signed a lease to acquire another 9,300 square meters of office space beside its existing Dublin building, the exec added. Ireland's minister for enterprise, trade and employment, Micheal Martin, stated "This decision yet again demonstrates that Ireland is by far and away the primary location for the digital media industry in Europe, and second only to Silicon Valley in the U.S." Google's stock is currently holding at about $410, and with strategic fiscal planning, this is but another move that will keep investors happy I think.
Methinks that'll be 600 tech support type jobs cause thats basically what Ireland's IT industry is made of, hmmm might apply for job there..
shut up im involved in irish it and graduated from uni here, and people like u be too dumb to even get a support job here with the sort of attitude u have wrmineo nice article where is it quoted from u irish ?, looked thru google jobs in dublin some interesting opportunities especially if ur fluent in another european language, they are going on a hiring spree
The facts and some of the quotes came from a recent Forbes article. Irish - no, not directly ... just good 'ole American mutt, but a definite envious admirer. When my day comes, I hope my family and friends throw a good ole Irish-type celebration versus a sad, morbid funeral. Je parle français; Ich sprecht Deutsch - where can I apply? I'd love to come back to Europe, but older now and married with children - big moves are so easily done anymore ...
charming...i'm merely stating a fact & not launching an attack on the irish IT industry, i have a Bsc(Hons) computer & software engineering degree from AIT...I think you interpreted my comment wrong...take a look at jobs.ie & you'll see the majority of IT jobs are in tech support/sales. You got something against tech support?, can't understand how thats an insult to Irish IT but anyways.. *edits - can't believe you boooed me & gave me a reputation balance, i'm hurt*
He is actually nearly right, most call centers for Europe are located in Ireland. I don't know why you are telling him to shut up...There is nothing wrong with what he said. As far as the original article, they are actually adding 700 jobs to the existing ones making it the biggest Google location outside the US. Most of the jobs actually aren't in Tech Support but are instead higher paying engineering jobs. Great for Dublin anyway
TheBrokenOne ok ok peace man sorry for that i missread ur post (apparantely i have to spread around before i an give u positive reputation) i officially apologise back to the article most of them tech support jobs will end up in india probably, but as for engineering jobs theres plenty of them, if you are highly skilled there are alot of jobs here and the celtic tiger is making a return ireland has changed alot, specially in last ten years, we went from backwards religious country to a hi-tech, this brought alot of bad and good things, as someone who lives and works here i can tell you theres alot of jobs from unskilled to proffesional. The good, nice craic, low taxes. The bad, loats of rain, everything is expensive. There currently a major labour problems here, Irish Ferries fired all the irish staff and replaced them with eastern european staff who get paid EUR3.60 per hour whereas minimum wage is EUR7.50, this caused an uproar over paying some foreign workers low wages and disposing of local staff so coldly Looking at google.ie/jobs alot of engineering and sales job, wouldnt it be great if DP member got a job on the inside, think of all them juicy google secrets
Actually, as part of Union negotiations, all future employees of Irish Ferries will receive the minimum mage of €7.50 per hour ($9/hr). Not to bore the rest of the forum with Irish politics.