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Old Dec 18, 2019 | 6:40 pm
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Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
Google and Apple each have 6,000 employees in Ireland. The labor force in Ireland is about 2.3 million; it’s 160 million in the US. By way of comparison, if each company had a similar percentage of the US labor force, they’d employ over 400,000.
Isn't that Irish workforce also largely used to support their entire EU/EMEA operations? Besides DUB and LHR, there's really no other tech hub equivalent in EU. Maybe TXL but my understand that's more start-up. But nonetheless, 6,000 is a sizable operation for a company.
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