The Irish have set their sites on Yahoo!, winning a contract that will create 400 new jobs over 5 years. Yahoo!’s European headquarters will be quartered in Dublin, populated mostly by graduates with skills in website editorial, information technology, financial services and customer support.
Yahoo!’s decision to dub Dublin their new European Vacation home centered on having the already successful Overture Services operation there as well. The move to Dublin shows a nice poetic touch since the word “Yahoo” was coined by Dubliner Jonathan Swift in 1726 in Gulliver’s Travels. The word “Yahoo” means “a course or brutish person”. Insert joke here.
So, the luck of the Irish gains Dublin a new brutish partner and a bunch of jobs for college grads. Not to put down college grads, but as a huge corporation that proclaims itself the “most visited family of websites globally”, don’t you think Yahoo! could afford to forgo cheap labor for veteran experience?
I bet there are more than a few experienced and out-of-work Dubliners who would be chomping at the bit to get a chance to work for one of the world’s three largest search engine companies. Then again, yahoos to say?
Just for your information, my friend, you should extend your research beyond quotes from Jonathan Swift before you refer to Irish jobs as “cheap labour”.
We have a thing here called a minimum wage. Yahoo were most likely enticed by tax incentives which the rest of Europe could not offer.
We even have electricity here in Ireland you know, it’s how dey run de computers!!!
Hey, I don’t mean to insult the Irish. With a name like “Kevin” why would I? 🙂