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US TECH FIRM Qualtrics is to create 350 jobs at its Dublin hub, a move that will more than double its workforce here.
The company, which designs software for the collection and analysis of data, was first set up in 2002 and opened its Dublin office in 2013.
It currently has 1,900 employees worldwide and is considered one of the fastest-growing tech companies globally.
The jobs, which the company has announced on its fifth anniversary on Irish soil, will be created over the next four years and will see the number of people employed in Dublin jump from 250 to 600.
The new roles will be in areas across the board, from tech support to engineering, sales and HR.
To accommodate the influx of new staff the company is in the process of constructing new offices on Clarendon Row, just off St Stephen’s Green in the city.
The existing offices are at Earlsfort Terrace in the south city centre.
The company, which has European offices in London, Paris, the Netherlands and the Nordics, handles its European, Middle Eastern, and African (EMEA) business from the Dublin hub.
Qualtrics’ Dublin office opened with just four employees five years ago.
CEO and co-founder Ryan Smith meanwhile told Fora last year that his interest in building a giant operation in Ireland has nothing to do with the relatively low corporate tax rate here.
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And where are they all going to live?
@Toomasu Sumitsu: Probably where they currently live i’d imagine.
@Toomasu Sumitsu: These jobs are being created over the next four years which works out at less than 90 jobs a year.
I think Dublin can handle that.
@Justin Gillespie: it really can’t.
@John O’Leary: It actually can’t handly one more
@John O’Leary: so you are effectively telling companies that Dublin is now closed for any new business? That should be a good boost for the economy.
@John O’Leary: Also, what makes you think that the 350 people are 350 people that are not already in Dublin and will apply for the roles? It doesn’t mean an influx of 350 new people to the city.
@Toomasu Sumitsu: in their cubicles at work
@Kevin Gallagher: it’s a broader point on all new jobs in the cc. We’ve made plenty of new office space but residential units are lagging behind and we already have a housing crisis. Tech companies attract talented immigrant labour too so they obviously can’t continue to live in their home countries.
@Kevin Gallagher: Because we’re lagging behind in education. We simply don’t have enough qualified candidates to fill these rolls so many tech companies recruit from abroad which is a big problem if they can’t find somewhere to live.
Right now we lack a proper workforce to attract these companies:
Why? Because our government is behind the curve because the clowns we have running the show can’t pick up the ball to drop it in the first place:
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/education-is-key-to-digital-future-36026096.html
@Toomasu Sumitsu: these jobs will be well paid €50-90k so they can easily afford an apartment
I believe in Capitalism and FDI, but these 350 people are going to displace more people who cannot compete with them on salaries. We need more joined up thinking. Apartment complexes should be part funded by companies for next couple of years.
@Ollie: your right this is awful news, why can’t this company just go somewhere else and leave Dublin alone!
@Ollie: Thats right Ollie, lets not give people who have the skills and worked hard for their experience because there are people who didnt. DOWN WITH JOBS! DOLE FOR EVERYONE!!!!!
@Paddy: meant for Tommasu
@Conor Boden: good news for the company and staff who already work there. However, not sure where they are going to find 350 experienced dev staff in Dublin. Cue more wage inflation followed by further inflation in rent etc…
@Ollie: something very irregular is happening in economic terms, increase in Demand is meant to encourage Supply, and thus the economy improves
Very odd that this basic principle seems to be not materializing, leaving us with the only option to drastically change the regulations as to encourage normal economic behaviour
Otherwise our current problems will worsen.
Simplistic outlook but that’s how I think things should be looked at
@Hellenize Dublin: That’s because you are continuing to underestimate how deep and impacting the crisis was on the property market and the fact that there are still high taxes associated with building and property generally.
But we can both agree that there remains a persistent undersupply.
@Conor Boden: do they really? Did you check their accounts or are you just defaming them for the craic?
@Ollie: that must be the stupidest comment I’ve ever read on this site……and the competition for that honour is pretty stiff. Good man!
@Conor Boden: Do you realise how heavily we rely on foreign multinationals. These American companies hire thousands of Irish people that would otherwise be unemployed. If the corporate tax rate was increased imagine the amount of jobs lost. We’re not setting up these types of companies ourselves.
@Ollie:
Has this company yet produced suitable software for the collection and analysis of economic data in Ireland on the benefits to an incoming overseas company of locating outside of the Dublin Region?
A sure fire winner!
@Ollie: They won’t all be people new to the city. Even if they weren’t born here they will probably be from one of the other tech firms. Also, people have had years to educate themselves in a stem area. I took a fas ecdl course and started a computing degree after I’d worked out some of the basics. If people keep studying in areas with low demand, well who’s fault is that.
Why oh why do Irish people whine about more jobs being created for people?! Theses jobs will have a knock effect seen in cafes ,shops,hairdressers/barbers etc and the wider economy as a whole. The more people in work the better for everyone. Announcements like this are to be greeted with optimism rather than moaning
@Patrick Daly: because Ireland is full of naysayers and pessimists. They don’t realise that there is no perfect solution to the social and economic issues in Ireland, so will find any way to to whine about things, without having any solutions to offer themselves.
These jobs announcements never materialise sorry. It’s all publicity. Fenergo, Indeed, take your pick.
There’s a story there if there’s any journos at the journal who don’t just regurgitate shyte
@Jim Ni Suilleabhain: Fenergo have about 20 jobs advertised at the moment, most of them in Dublin
@Jim Ni Suilleabhain: It just feels that way because it’s usually a few people a month over a few years.
@Chef Harold: it was hundreds is the point. Thousands in indeed.
Trust me on this one.
@Jim Ni Suilleabhain: they tend to inflate the number of jobs announced but make no mistake, the majority of the jobs do materialize. Qualtrics grew by 200 to 300 staff, from 20, in about 3 years, and they announced that before it happened. Indeed have experienced massive growth in Dublin in the last couple of years and are hiring at a rate of knots as we speak. Same goes for the likes of MasterCard, Google, Cartrawler, Facebook et al.
@Jim Ni Suilleabhain: Ok, I’ll bite. Why would a company make fake job announcements?
Sometimes plans change and maybe you were personally disappointed by such an event?
From Indo –
Mr Smith named the new headquarters after Dermot Costello, the Dublin chairman who passed away from cancer earlier this year.
“Dermot was an inspiration to us all,” said Mr Smith. “He pioneered the success of Qualtrics in Europe and had a positive impact on everybody he worked with.
“He was one of Ireland’s best tech ambassadors.”
Mr Smith said that the cancer research campaign ’5 For The Fight’, which was promoted heavily by Mr Costello, has raised close to €200,000 to date.
they cant even do home office because they have no home
Great, another useless ‘tech’ company to harvest people’s personal information, generate no useful tangible products and drive up rents in Dublin. The ‘San Fran’ model
Our hot summer had nothing to do with the air coming up from north Africa either.
Pssssst, don’t tell Mr Trump, he will not be happy with this news!
We need more housing to house the people from India and the continent that we’re going to need to fill those jobs.
High tech companies are already having to “poach” staff from other high-tech companies.
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