Apple announced Wednesday that it will add 1,000 new jobs in Ireland over the next year and a half, according to IDA Ireland, the Irish government s foreign direct investment arm.
That will bring the iPhone maker s Irish workforce, based mainly in Cork, to over 6,000 jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook said.
He said that s more almost a quarter of the company s European workforce.
Cook spoke at a event honoring him at Trinity College in Dublin. Apple has been in Ireland since 1980. Cook said when he first visited the country for Apple 18 years ago, it employed 1,800 people.
Apple is awaiting a final decision by the European Union on whether or not its tax arrangements with the Irish government constitute forbidden state assistance.
Ireland, for Apple, is very much like home, he said. We don t see ourselves as in located in Ireland, we see ourselves as rooted here and deeply so.
He told the Irish broadcaster RTE in an interview that the decision wouldn t affect Apple s presence in Ireland. We re all in, he said.
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