More jobs gloom & doom in the cards for Ireland?

TomF

How long before this trend hits hard in Ireland?

http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87%257E11271%257E1523122,00.html

"Peter Kerrigan encouraged friends to move to Silicon Valley throughout the 1980s and'90s, wooing them with tales of lucrative jobs in a burgeoning industry.
But he lost his network engineering job at a major telecommunications company in August 2001 and remains unemployed. Now 43, the veteran programmer is urging his 18-year-old nephew to stay in suburban Chicago and is discouraging him from pursuing degrees in computer science or engineering".

"Boeing, Dell and Motorola have opened software development centers in Russia. Intel employs 400 full-time Russian software research engineers and nearly 200 others in marketing and sales, wireless Internet access and modem projects.

Santa Clara-based Intel entered the Russian market with a small contract project three years ago. But within months, the world's largest chip maker hired all the programmers who write compiler software to optimize the microprocessors' performance, and opened the Russia Software Development Center in Nizhny Novgorod."

"The average computer programmer in India costs $20 per hour in wages and benefits, compared to $65 per hour for an American with a comparable degree and experience, according to consulting firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young."

mike65

Well its not happened yet...but it will. At the moment its
"traditional" read old tech and spanner/screwdriver assembly
jobs they are going but the next wave will see high tech jobs
ebb east.

Hardly a surprise once this country was cheap but with a decent-ish infrastructure now we're expensive and have
comparativly worse infrastructure while the Eastern economies have opened up and have much better telecoms/roads/railways/etc so yes we're f>cked unless the state starts to invests in the physical needs of the economy and works to reduce operating costs.

I'm not holding my breath

Mike.