Job Cuts

MiCr0

Ericsson will announch (or just have) 100 ppl to take volentry redundancy

deRanged

I'd heard something about that.
do you know where?

MiCr0

through all of ericsson ireland

Deathstrike

And Dell have let a few people go aswell. It looks like the country is going to hit a slump.

Magwitch

Not good news either way. The knock on effect will be a capping or reduction in IT wage structures as more skilled labour becomes available. Damn.

Firefox

I work for Dell in limerick, and they told us three weeks ago that there would be no more job cuts "for the foreseeable future" and what do know....just the other day they announced a further 125 to go in Bray. That's almost 400 in total. We also got a 'tighten our belts' speech as well.

Manach

Sorry to heard that Micro . I'd say all the telecom companies (esp. here down south in Motorola) are going through a rough patch. The most common source of blame seems to be the huge licenses paid by the carriers for the 3G spectrum & therefore having no money to buy equipment or to pay for the s/w to develop 3G.

Coyote

Well the jobs in dell were admin staff not tech jobs so dell said. it's not that big a deal ireland is not going in to a slum, more of a slow down which is not all bad at the rate we were going was too fast any way. we still have the highest groth rate in the EU even after the slow down.

Coyote

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Xterminator

A word of advice to any 1 who's interested.
Apparently IBM are hiring as many people as possible, so if your unlucky 'nuff to get the bullet, try them.

rbquirke

There has been a pretty constant stream of doom and gloom of late, especially from multinationals. It has been therefore pretty easy to miss some of the good things about new or existing Irish start-ups that are still plugging away (and hiring).

In 1999, more people were made redundant than ever before. Thing was, even more people were hired.

There is still plenty of work for talented, intelligent and highly skilled workers (you don't even have to be all three).

Ronan

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[This message has been edited by Griffin (edited 11-07-2001).]