They have lost nearly a million customers in the last year, people are moving from WoW which is their cash cow and playing games such as Starwars and League of Legends. Too many nerfs and pandering for the complaining 13 yr olds instead of those mature players with actual money to continue playing the game.

Yes Alan, clearly this company that makes over $1bn profit annually had a nefarious scheme all along to set up a small 50 employee operation in cork, grow it to 900 employees over five years then cut 200 relatively low skilled jobs for a few hundred grand in IDA grants. What a racket

maybe he is right, not only do they get the grant but they also save in tax rates.

What about all the sme s creating jobs every day and getting no coverage. The media would rather indulge plc pr houses with supposed “new” job announcements for multinationals. We rejoice when some multi billion euro company creates a few hundred jobs yet ignore when a local business creates 5 or 6 jobs. These local jobs overshadow any announcement by these guys when piled together. No high office pals, no money for spin doctors, no real investigative work by the media = blatant ignoring.

Think you have a point there Fizi its so much for 200 jobs here and there with Seven companies closing a day which is on the journal http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/over-seven-companies-collapsed-each-day-in-february-369136-Mar2012/
it seems to be balancing out the unemployment rate hence the lack of moment of the 14.5%.
Its all good to see Microsoft and Paypal etc setting up shop here,on the other hand jobs in the domestic economy is really bad as no one is spending or banks aren’t loaning therefore small and medium business’s are struggling or closing down.

If you were making 1 billion a year but by getting rid of 200 staff you would be capable of maintaining current income but reducing cost and thus making 1.1 billion next year what would you do? Economy is brutal.

fizi, I understand it fully.. the sad part is these transnational companies and sadly the vast majority of companies see people as numbers.. in realism these people have lives, kids, families and are more than faceless stats….

Seems a lot of people support letting people go when a business is in profit. ???

Vetoed…. To forbid or prohibit authoritatively.

So your suggesting it should be illegal for a company to cut it’s workforce unless the company is making a loss?