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THE COMPUTER COMPANY Hewlett Packard has announced that it will shed 280 jobs at it offices in south Dublin but will make efforts to redeploy employees affected.
The company is making 220 employees redundant with 60 contractors also being let go following a review by one of its clients of its pan-European operating model.
The client has decided to move services closer to customers in Italy and Portugal meaning that HP’s multilingual support services at its plant in Sandyford will no longer required and will end at the end of March next year.
A spokesperson for the company said that “every effort” would be made to redeploy the staff within HP but did acknowledge that the positions and employees are being made redundant
A statement from the company this evening said: “HP is fully committed to its operations in Ireland and will work closely with its employees on the transition and redeployment opportunities to help minimize any impact and ensure high standards of customer delivery quality are maintained.”
The construction of a recently announced facility in Galway will still go ahead and will lead to the creation of 150 construction jobs, the company maintained this evening.
In May of last year, HP announced plans to cut 27,000 jobs from its global workforce of 350,000 by 2014 in an effort to save $3.5 billion annually.
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Vote yes for jobs. Truely madly deeply love being a European now enda
Enda is a clown. Didnt him and his corrupt cronies promise 100000 jobs. Luckily I sell smack so I dont care.
Any jobs nidge
Read the fine print nidge, 100,000 jobs actually meant by the time they were finished there would be 100,000 people left working.
Why yes. Im starting up a male brothel if your interested in selling yourself . Was in town Saturday and theres a huge market. I need to broaden my horizons.
I suppose beggars can’t be choosers.
It’s not only your horizons you’ll be broadening in that market
Austerity works !!! The economy is in free fall and nobody in charge knows what to do. Except take more money from everyone !!
What’s this got to do with austerity? This is about a company shutting down an operation because the customer of that operation wants the services provided closer to home.
Stop being an idiot and blaming everything on the idiots in government. They’re responsible for a lot, but not this
Hewlett Packard used to be at the cutting edge of technology.
Now they’re at the cutting edge of cutting.
It’s their own fault… Lets stop making products and focus on managed services like IBM had success doing.
Not long ago Enda was touting Ireland as “The silicone valley of Europe.”
Theres a few letters in silicone and that would be more accurate
That was regarding new tits…. And he was dead on the button, have we not got 166 tits sitting in the dail…..
Good man Enda,those hard decisions are paying off
I’m 53, have a disability from a 4 and a half hour major surgery which I was wrongly diagnosed as having cancer,Have very limited use of my right arm which still pains me after 9 months now and all I’m being told is go out and get a job!!!! W.T.F.? (also have heart disease) Does anyone want to employ me?
No . Not because anything you just said . I wish you a speedy recovery. Its becauce you support Manchester filth .
My guess is that these are all multi-lingual positions, meaning that it won’t effect too many Irish people. Still, not good news, but it could have been worse.
Given the high unemployment in Italy and Portugal it makes no sense to outsource roles to another country. They can get better, and cheaper, staff at home.
Why would the staff be better? I work in a multilingual role in Dublin and I’m Irish. Not really getting why you think staff would be better in other countries, seems overly critical
they’d have a much larger pool of candidates
Thanks for clarifying. Not better then. Just more of them.
Will i still be able to have Brownsauce with my chips ?
Salaries in the private sector are way too high. This has to be a huge factor in the decision to move those jobs. The huge salaries they have to pay probably go along way in cancelling out the low corporation tax.
Yeah massive money they paid for multilingual support jobs, I bet in region of overwhelming 24K…
It will cost far less than 24k in Portugal or Italy. More importantly I bet the facilities and other overheads are lower.
My sympathies are with those who will lose their jobs, but it really infuriates me when people jump on a bandwagon and use every bad news story to bash the government, never letting the true facts get in the way if a good moan. This is nothing to do with corporation tax or austerity. HP still have very significant manufacturing operations in Ireland. If you care to read the article again, you will see that it is about where their customer want the services to be provided. No amount of government policy, good or bad, would have changed that.
Good example of greed. Nothing wrong with 24k. Private sector mentality = more more more.
Do you always green thumb your own comments Gary?
Do you think I am the only person who thinks my comments are right? Lol. :)
Not at all Gary. Just that the only green thumb you got for that last comment appeared immediately after you submitted it. A thought for you though – if everyone in the private sector accepted a salary of 24k, where would the income tax revenue come from to pay for all of government spending? Schools, hospitals, emergency services, salaries for all those employed in public service?
Firstly I’d imagine there are more people on the journal this evening at the same time as me looking at and commenting on articles. Secondly, so pay the private sector huge money but keep cutting the public sectors salaries? The “I pay your wages” works both ways. If I didn’t buy goods and services you wouldn’t get paid either.
Where did I mention cutting public sector salaries? I don’t agree with that – everyone should be able to earn an equivalent salary, public or private sector. We need an export led economy to bring income into thus country. That means we need a strong private sector, where workers in that sector are earning money to circulate in the domestic economy.
In relation to these jobs Gary that might not be correct but overall you have a point. You keep cutting and people have less money to spend on private sector goods and services. Its bound to have a knock on effect in job cuts. Which is why it is the governments fault.
Fair point NO’C.
I green thumbed you for that lol :)
I hope the employees get a very good redundancy package.
Another bubble .bubble and more toil and trouble
I have a Hewlett Packard printer and I have wanted to fire it at the wall everytime i tried to use it it’s absolutely rubbish
Nice !
Bad grammar
I hope the employees get a good redundancy.
As an ex hp worker now on a ever increasing pile of unemployed it’s get the money and get out asap
I just bought a 7 series and a new house. Now I have no job. Me and the wife might end up sticking up shops and stealing a lawn from somewhere.
We should follow the example of other countries by taking to the streets and demand the resignation of our corrupt government.
To all the colleagues that are affected by this, there are other jobs out there in the industry.
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