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Alphabet has a massive workforce of X000s in Ireland, spanning full time, part time, and contractor/vendors. They operate multiple massive buildings around Grand Canal, across product areas.

Not sure where you saw that they have no workers in IE?




> and yes Ireland.

I think you missed that bit so I edited it for clarity.

I am not saying they have no workers in Ireland, I am saying Ireland’s tax policy doesn’t increase the number of workers.

As the Alphabet shell corp has no workers. Alphabet itself does. It’s a 190,000 worker behemoth attracted by a cheap English speaking workforce in a reasonably close time zone.


Fair enough, to be clear, I completely agree that Alphabet is massively dodging taxes. Just that, they have a significant workforce unlike Apple.


Apple does a a significant workforce in Ireland ~6,000 people out of 22,000 in Europe. It’s their shell company that’s empty.

https://www.apple.com/ie/job-creation/

UK has ~6,500 so together over half their European employees are in English speaking countries which makes sense.




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