Will the tech giants close buildings in the docks

Cordell wrote: »

I now, but now it's time to try again

They are. It's not like they tried and gave up. They will offer grants and spaces in office blocks and warehouses to companies to set up in the BMW region (border, midlands, west). It's not a once off thing, it's something they do continuously. They have a big business park in Sligo specifically for this. It works in attracting some companies to those areas but it's never going to attract a Google or Microsoft with thousands of employees to Sligo or other similarly sized towns and that should not be the goal.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/news/ida-building-for-the-future-here-in-sligo-37644620.html

2018 was an excellent year for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Sligo. Three new IDA client companies established operations here, animal health and nutrition manufacturers Phibro, global software company LiveTiles and retail solutions company E3 Retail.

Expansions were announced by established companies Overstock, an e-commerce and technology company and Abbvie, the global R&D based biopharma company. Over 400 jobs were created.

Sligo is now home to 22 IDA client companies, employing 2,184 people.

For areas like this, this is exactly the type of companies they should be attracting. It's better to have 20 companies employing 2,000 people than it is to have 1 or 2 companies employing the same number.

And for the record, I know LiveTiles had serious issues getting developers. I was inundated with emails and linkedin messages from recruiters (loads of different recruitment companies and some were different people for the same company) asking me if I was interested. I got a couple of phone calls about it too from recruitment agencies that had my mobile number. A few of them told me they were struggling to get developers.

ronivek wrote: »

It's difficult enough for the big Dublin companies to hire; let alone those outside of Dublin. Granted the standard of candidate some of the technology companies look for is quite high; but positions in any teams I've been a part of routinely take anywhere from 6 months to well over a year to fill unless concessions are made.

Another aspect is the fact many technology employees hop from position to position and company to company every few years; this is a lot easier if you're based in an area with many other companies (e.g. Dublin). Indeed it is another one of the reasons Dublin is so popular; virtually every significant technology company and sector is represented here in some form or other.

Exactly. It's a big factor in why I'm not interested in dev roles in Sligo despite being from there. The job might be great but if they ever go out of business or I want to move for whatever reason, your options are extremely limited. In Dublin, you don't have that problem.

Saying that, the amount of companies with dev roles in Sligo has increased over the past few years so hopefully over time it continues this and ends up with a lot of companies with dev roles. That will make it more enticing for people as they will not be, more or less, stuck/tied to the one employer if they move there and put down roots.