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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/30/Dell-cuts-250-jobs-in-Ireland_1.html
Dell cuts 250 jobs in Ireland
Dell says that further cuts will be made across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
Dell
is set to cut 250 jobs in Ireland as part of ongoing plans to save £1.5
billion ($3 billion) across the company.Layoffs will be made in Dell’s
Irish sales, marketing, finance, technical support, and some
administrative functions, it has been reported.Dell said in a statement
that further cuts would be made across Europe, the Middle East, and
Africa, because there was “more work to do on cost to restore our
competitiveness”. The company employs 17,500 people in the region, and
is expecting to cut from 700 to 900 jobs.It would not comment
on job losses in the UK.”We are proud of our record of growth in EMEA
but recognize that maintaining our success requires us to look
critically at our operations. This does mean we need to make changes to
our staffing in the region,” Dell added. Some staff will be moved into
customer-facing roles, it said.The company is cutting “at least” 8,800
jobs globally, but chief executive Michael Dell has said cuts may in
reality exceed that number. It is also restructuring its product design
and distribution, and realigning its manufacturing strategy by shutting
down some factories, while opening new operations in emerging
markets.Dell’s job cuts are the latest in a string of tough events in
the IT industry, as the global economy slows. AMD also plans to lay off
10 percent of its workforce by the third quarter of 2008, in an effort
to cut costs.Many analysts have indicated that businesses are likely to
rein back IT spending. The Centre for Economics and Business Research
has bleakly warned that the impending IT job loss rate will be worse
than the dot com crash.Gartner has warned that many firms would make a
move to offshoring more IT functions in a bid to cut costs, and
ChangeWave Research found in a survey that a number of businesses would
reduce or halt spending in the second quarter of this year.
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