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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities 82 - Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 February 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2008
Description
US-owned firm ServiceSource is to create 120 jobs in 2008 by expanding its Dublin-based European headquarters, bringing total employment to 300. The Dublin headquarters opened in 2005, and presently employs 180 staff. The expansion is a result of substantial growth in its clients' business. Clients of ServiceSource include GE Healthcare, Microsoft, Adobe, Sun Micro-systems, Symantec, AT&T, Juniper Networks
The company is a specialist sales organisation that sells additional services and collects licence revenues from customers of its client companies. It primarily operates in the healthcare and high technology IT software sectors, spread across more than 100 nations.
Sources
22 February 2008: The Irish Times
Citation
Eurofound (2008), ServiceSource, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 66336, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66336.
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