For the thousands of Irish Intel workers, the following days are sure to be intense. Their jobs are expected to be lost across the company's operations in the country.
The Irish Times reports that Eamonn Sinnott, Intel Ireland general manager, informed his employees via e-mail on Thursday about the possible termination of their jobs. Sinnott explained that they should be informed "within 72 hours" come May 4 if and only if their jobs are at risk.
The Intel workers are expected to join both individual and group meetings with the company's management team in the next few days. Nonetheless, they will not be reportedly notified about the total number of jobs set to be terminated.
It was previously reported that Intel was already prepping to lay off a total of 420 Irish staff, as the company seeks to cut roughly 11 percent of its global manpower. The workforce redundancies are said to be 12,000.
According to Independent, with Intel not disclosing the total number of jobs to be at risk, more and more Irish workers are starting to grow anxious -- that the fact that the company gave its people a half-baked information has been a torture for them.
Apart from the impending job losses, Intel Ireland is also feared to be plummeting down, as the company fails to cope with the ever-changing technologies. Hence, if it happens, it would mean total devastation for everyone involved in Intel Ireland.
The spokeswoman for Intel in Ireland remained mum about the ongoing issue. Nonetheless, Intel irradiated that the company's continued struggle with highly demands for personal computers and cloud computing has been the main reason behind the job cuts.
Intel Ireland consists of 4,500 employees while their long-term contract workers are around 700. Furthermore, Intel is expected to keep under wraps the overall job reduction quantity as part of the entire process.
