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AS IT ANNOUNCES plans to hire more staff for its Irish operation, Facebook has also received the all-clear to make a number of upgrades to its new Dublin campus in Dublin 4.
During a recent visit to Dublin, the tech giant’s head of operations Sheryl Sandberg revealed the company would hire an additional 1,000 workers across its Dublin and Cork offices and data centre in Meath.
Facebook’s Irish operation is its largest outside California, where it is headquartered. The company opened its Irish office in 2009 and has grown its Irish staff base from 30 to 4,000 in the intervening decade.
The tech firm’s main international office is currently based in Dublin’s ‘Silicon Docks’, but last year Facebook revealed it would relocate just over 2,000 of its Dublin-based workers to a new campus in Dublin 4.
The 5.6-hectare site in Ballsbridge, which is currently occupied by AIB, is located opposite the RDS and has the potential to house 7,000 workers.
Facebook’s new home is made up of four buildings across two blocks, which are split down the middle by the office development’s concourse.
After announcing its plans to take up the lease on the Dublin 4 property, planning permission was filed by developers to make a number of changes to the property “to address the requirements of the proposed tenant”.
The plans – filed the same day Facebook announced it would move into the property in November – included the construction of a network of bridges to connect the office blocks.
Documents sent to Dublin council show that one of the three bridges would span the width of the campus square and be visible from the road in front of the RDS.
The 24m bridge across the concourse would connect the second level of each office block, while a pair of shorter two-storey bridges would also link the office blocks adjacent to one another.
Prior to the announcement that Facebook would lease the site, the developers of the project – Fibonacci Property ICAV – made numerous applications for planning permission to modernise the AIB bankcentre in Ballsbridge.
Its applications were largely approved by Dublin council, with some elements of the new developments proposed slightly downsized by the local authority.
Fibonacci Property ICAV is a joint venture between well-known property developer Johnny Ronan and Colony Capital – the funding partners behind his real estate group.
In the group’s latest application to develop the site, Fibonacci Property indicated that changes to the roof of each office block had been requested by the new tenant to help the buildings blend in with the skyline.
Facebook also requested some structural amendments to the building that would make the building more friendly to an open-plan office setting.
The local authority also approved that request and the creation of two large atriums at ground level to face onto the campus concourse. The developers said these halls would make the concourse more of a focal point.
Flying visit
When Facebook revealed it would relocate to Dublin 4, the Irish Times reported that staff could start moving into the offices as early as March or April of this year.
In her address in Dublin, Sandberg said that Facebook plans to hire the new 1,000 staff this year and that the company is looking for employees for its engineering, safety, legal, policy, marketing and sales teams.
Facebook’s plans to ramp up its presence in Ireland have come at a time when other large tech firms are also bolstering their Irish bases.
Salesforce recently revealed plans to hire an additional 1,500 workers in Dublin, while Amazon also announced plans last year to take on another 1,000 staff.
Fellow tech giant Google is also gearing up to increase staff at its Dublin operation and has acquired a number of new office blocks to house employees in Dublin’s ‘Silicon Docks’.
Written by Killian Woods and posted on Fora.ie
Written by Fora Staff and posted on TheJournal.ie
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Well done to the people of cork who donated
Cork 1 Enda n Joan O
Did ye see how they gave an exemption to ESB employees who are very well paid on guaranteed work and gold-plated pensions ,,,,,
Someone somewhere is getting paid lots… It’s not a conspiracy.
Fair play to the people of cork. This guy ran a dirty filthy rapist out of the town. It’s a strange thing but it’s always the downtrodden who will deal with rapists and child mollesters the way they need to be dealt with. Fair play more people needed to deal with rapists.
You have stats to back all that I suppose? And facts and court & police reports?
Despite everything going on in people lives there’s such goodness and giving to others in need.
Well done to the people that donated. As far as the arsonists are concerned, karma is a b1t@h and it will find you.
Glad to see that other comment removed. Hope things come around for him and he gets a bit of good luck and happiness. 13 years on streets is a very long time in so called rich country who can give free homes and education and food to people fr other countries but its own to be homeless. Free education on the promise of when that countries economy takes off they will buy Irish. But still leave their own people homeless.
I work in cork city centre and I often see this guy begging every day. He’s not the worst to be fair but he’s definitely on heroin or something because when u pass him he’s always ‘nodding’ off to sleep. One of the effects of heroin. He also boozes every day and the lady on the radio said it was out of boredom. Sher if he didn’t drink every day and spend his money on drugs surely over a 13 year period he could have saved up enough to get a gaff of his own if he really wanted to better himself!
Maybe in a perfect world Eddie but unfortunately it’s not that simple in many cases.
Eddie exactly. Would you give 2000 to someone on that? He could wind up in jail or dead next week. It’s horrible what happened to him those teens should be ashamed. Hopefully the radio station sorts out the accommodation for him and doesn’t hand him 2000. If I was handed 2000 five years ago I know what I would have done with it.I’m not blaming him, but addiction is a compulsion. It’s exactly the reason you should buy food or something for people who are begging not give them money, by giving money you are enabling them. With all the good intentions in the world, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
Eddie, you make assumptions and judge without walking a mile in this mans shoes. I’m sure he does drink but maybe thats what gets him through. It doesn’t excuse what those teenagers did and with support this may well be a turning point in this mans life. I for one wish him luck.
There’s no way in 13 years he would come close to save for a house if he wasn’t working”
Good luck to this lad it sounds like he needed a bit of support. And just because someone on here has posted they have seen him “nod” once, means absolutely nothing and is completely unfair to assume it is because he is taking drugs.
Justin clearly not a house but to rent somewhere. He was on the radio last week saying he was kicked out of his house for having too many house parties. If u really wanted somewhere to live other than the streets you’d make a conscious decision to quit the booze and drugs
Carmel I said I see him always nodding not just once. U obviously don’t see him daily.
Oh right then. Take the money back lads, he was seen nodding. Get a grip
Nodding because he’s on heroin. It’s a massive problem in the city.
Do you think, Eddie, that maybe being tired because of the lack of a place to sleep might make you nod from time to time? Have you ever been exhausted? Probably not, but had you been do you think people should sneer and suggest you are on heroin?
Saw on old man nodding on a bench in Stephen’s Green earlier, must be on heroin. Moron!
I heard recently he lost his house due to his drug addiction so he’s still on the streets begging.. mind you even when he did have his house he was still begging everyday…
Hope it’s a happy ending for him
“To buy a paper”
What is the problem Niall?
That sort of judging attitude keeps people down on their luck down.
Victim blaming is here to stay apparently
Stay classy Niall.
Yeah and handing an addict 2000 could kill them or land them in jail but it wouldn’t be you’d fault would it. He hasn’t been homeless for 13 years for no reason. There are places to go in Cork you just are not allowed in if using drugs. I’m not blaming him for his situation but handing him 2000 is not a good idea. I really hope it works out for him.
What the money is being used for is clearly outlined in the article
Maybe he was ordering the next edition of Horse And Hound while he was down there was he?
It’s good to see that there are still good people doing good deeds and not everyone is as deeply cynical as Niall is.
Oh shut up Niall.
Are people really suggesting that because someone is homeless they shouldn’t buy a newspaper. Yes the article clearly outlined what the money is for. Micheal is the person who lost what was effectively his home and his possessions yet he is being judged and not they young people in our society who thought it was ok to do this. I say best of luck Micheal and if it doesn’t work out please god it will someday. Keep buying the paper educating ones self is one way of keeping the bigotry and narrow mindedness that is evident in these comments at bay !
Niall go do your attention seeking somewhere else. Well done to the cork people.
Your the kind of lad that would save a drowning man by throwing him a stone ,NIall
I apologise for using the word ‘save’ .
Niall, never look down on a person unless you’re helping them up.
The homeless wrap themselves in newspapers on cold nights for insulation, you clueless dick.
Me thinks Niall has a major chip . But I suppose that’s what happens when you join fg .
It took a few low life animals to burn the chaps tent and belongings before people had a collection and raised two grand yet it costs on average 70k a year to house a prisoner in Ireland ..
Why is he buying a paper? He could have put that euro towards a 100% mortgage
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