OK, but coal is not good and if you burn coal you destroy the planet.
Another problem is heavy alcohol drinking, increased consumption especially during winter months when you have to stay warm. If you cannot burn coal, the windmills are frozen and there is no sun for the solar panels what do you do?
Same problem as Finland. How do you handle this?
Also the diet is based too much on meat, not healthy.
Maybe share the work with places with a Mediterranean diet like Greece and Italy.
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Cost of electricity is cheaper in Poland, whereas prices are crazy in Portugal. Poland has its own local coal productions.
Winter is nice in Poland, summer is a nightmare in Lisbon.
30% of the young Portuguese population live abroad, with so limited government and economic crisis.
Poland is naturally the new European IT hub. Polish mindset is well adapted for hard working, whereas Portuguese managers waste their time will selfies and gossips.
Moreover, latest legislation election in Portugal shown that local population is protesting against the increase of criminality.
It is more an energy problem. Poland has cold winters, Portugal has nice weather. EVs get a better range in Portugal than Poland. The move is motivated by climate change, so definitely Bengaluru, Portugal Is the way to go.
Poland is cheaper, IT market is really more secured, less taxes than in Portugal.
Cost of the life is horrible in Lisbon.
There is more security in Poland.
There are public transports to offices in Poland. You have to use taxi for office in Lisbon.
@1xwi+1unRwoZp
Sure thing. Keep on thinking Krakow is cheapest. Lets see how far that ride goes.
There is a reason for tac is being merged with bgl… writing and something on the wall. And the writing is not to serve our few customers who are still left , better
@1sei+1unRwoZp Not sure from where do you take this but no, Portugal is not cheaper. Neither it is Bangalore.
@hmy+1unRwoZp
Poland was Cisco favourite child . However Lisbon is cheaper. Hence the favourite child changes.
For tac operations Bgl and Lisbon are cheaper…
@det+1unRwoZp my comment was more directed to the previous one. My point is, Poland for exampler will not close and move its operation to more expensive countries considering the cost and effort it would take to do that.
@1xqf+1unRwoZp, not sure if you're the same person on the comment about how Cisco operates, nevertheless comments like this show how pathetic people are. This is a blog to discuss an unfair layoff happening to worker class and yet people like yourself find it funny to put a big comment that is clearly written by ChatGPT
Belgium is bye bye for sure
To EMEA employees,
For immediate release:
In order to re-align our resources and prepare for the AI revolution the following changes will take effect on Monday September 9:
- Belgium and Netherlands sites will close. All work will be consolidated in France and respectively Germany;
- Poland and UK will close. All projects will be transferred in Portugal.
The math calculations that our AI G2 supercomputer in San Jose (derived from a previous R2D2 AI platform) clearly indicate the cost savings and opportunities that are being highlighted by these changes.
Yours beloved CEO
@eki+1unRwoZp well enlighten us with your knowledge on how Cisco operates then. If they're moving to low cost centers, what logical sense does it make to close a cheap one to move to an expensive hub?
LOL, it's comments like these that confirms most of the people here does not know anything about how Cisco or any business operates
I disagree. Poland is the biggest hub and at the same time the cheapest in Europe. It doesn’t make financial sense to move the biggest hub to a more expensive location in times of cost cut
Belgium, Poland, Netherlands and UK all closing. All work moves to Portugal.
@etb+1unRwoZp different councils it is per country
What about Brussels, Poland and Portugal? Same council or different rules?
For UK probably end October they will notify the impacted ones. Germany, France, Netherlands would probably learn their destiny by March, April only as they have workers Council.
Just waiting our impending doom
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