There has been whispers for the last 18 months of at least one of the Irish sites closing to cut costs. But only one of them is actually owned (Limerick) and Cork still has manufacturing which leaves Dublin on the cutting block perhaps. Anyone else heard similar?
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@x7 Yeah the east looks like a great place to do business right now. /s
@q5 Yes, but you miss the point. All Dell employees below the c suite will be Indians by 2030
Dell sold the L-EMC site in Ballincollig, Cork. They were renting two floors of a nice office building in Mahon Point, Cork and they got rid of those too.
The Ovens site in Cork (which is a center of excellence) makes sense to keep as there is manufacturing/assembly/hot&cold testing facilities as well as lots of office space. When I worked for EMC there was about 3000 on site. Big car park capacity and used to have a free bus from Cork city center. Dont know about now but it was a good site.
Agree. Limerick head count has reduced by roughly 40% over the last 3 years and is still reducing by 29 employees (on the quiet) every month. Limerick (L-Dell only) is only down the road from the much bigger L-Dell and L-EMC Cork offices.
Dell have already sold the much larger Limerick (EMF 2 - Castletroy) and (EMF 3 - Raheen). Don't think Dell will have much issue selling their last Limerick building - EMF1, with all the pharma companies so close
how many employees work out of Cork, Dublin and Limerick?
@c3 Yes, but that would mean having to travel to India. Nobody wants that
@ga yes they do and have been investing in refurbishing the office space in CB2 to make it a nice noisy single open office.
Load of work for the "AI factory" stuff going on too.
I remember before Dell bought EMC, there was plans to add another building on that site (perhaps a datacenter). There was talk about having to increase capacity of power and data into the site to grow with it... those plans are ling since shelved.
Do they not own the Cork site?
Soon Dell will only have sites in India since that's where all the cheap labor is and they are willing to work around the clock.
Most of the site champions are gone from Dublin also.Office less floor lest than 1 third of what it was.I would guess Dublin longterm is gone.
A lot of investment in Limerick over the last few years but its missing a strong site champion and its a prime site and would be snapped up by surrounding pharma companies I reckon.