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Right) Colm Long, Director of Facebook's Online Operations, Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman and Tanaiste and Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan, in Facebook's offices on Hanover Quay in Dublin. Niall Carson/PA Archive
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Facebook to hire 100 new staff for Dublin HQ
The world’s biggest social network will increase its current Dublin workforce by 50% in the coming year.
FACEBOOK IS TO INCREASE the workforce at its Dublin facilities – the headquarters to its operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa – by about 100 over the coming year, it is reported.
The Guardian reports that the social networking giant is to add to its current staffing levels of 200 at its premises in Hanover Quay, expending its workforces in the international sales, financing and development areas.
Facebook’s Dublin chief Colm Long said the company had been “very encouraged” by the government’s insistence that the hallmark 12.5% rate of corporation tax would remain unchanged, despite the intervention of the EU and IMF in the country’s financial affairs.
“This is not a very popular thing to say, but we’ve seen time and time again that we can go in and have conversations with the Irish government to solve problems … there’s often more bureaucracy in other countries,” he said.
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