Dell to let 250 staff go in Ireland – Cherrywood hardest hit.

It looks like I spoke too soon yesterday with my previous post. I guess I tempted fate.

Dell Ireland announced that it will be cutting 250 jobs for its 4500 workforce in Ireland. Operations in Cherrywood in Dublin will be hardest hit as most jobs to go are in support functions – Marketing, IT and Administration. Dell insists that no Manufacturing jobs will be lost but there are expected to be some job losses in Limerick Operations.

Dell has been established in Ireland for a good few years and is deemed a high profile employer in Ireland which magnifies this news. The company cited slow computer sales as the driver for global cost cutting when it announced the bad news to staff on Tuesday.

I find it interesting that manufacturing has not been affected as most job loss in Ireland seems to be manufacturing. I remember a number of years back there were strong rumours of Dell relocating operations to Mexico (I think!!)

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2 Responses to “Dell to let 250 staff go in Ireland – Cherrywood hardest hit.”

  1. Ivan | JobsBlog.ie on May 9th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    It was the 1st of April when Dell was featured last in the Jobs News Blog. Then they announced the 10% of staff cuts worldwide. And only 4 weeks later – the Irish subsidiary is announcing 250 redundancies in Cherrywood (Dublin South).

    Ivan | http://www.JobsBlog.ie

  2. bilal iftikhar on September 17th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    hi i am looking for a job or residens in ireland how can i apply actually i am living in london but i want to apply for lreland and i wana live there so can u tell me about that how can i apply for ireland waiting for ur reply and reply me on my mail address.

    thanks

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