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View Poll Results: How many staff do you have?

Me myself and I 20 64.52%
Less than 5 8 25.81%
Between 5 and 10 0 0%
More than 10 3 9.68%
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Old 15-01-2007, 12:44 AM
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How many staff do you have (excluding contractors) ?
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Me and two others. Trying to clear the finances for two more.
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Getting staff is one thing... Paying for them is another!
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outsource to Thailand.... great brains there for 10,000 BHT a month (200 Euro) + you can write off your visits against tax!
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4 in total excluding contractors. Would love to hire more, but it's SUPER hard to find staff that either know what you do or can do it right (Your way).
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I've noticed a huge increase in the number of Web Design and Development jobs posted on Irish Jobs, Creative Ireland, etc. recently. Knowing a few of the people who are hiring, I'm told that decent production staff are fairly thin on the ground. One thing I haven't noticed however is that salaries aren't really increasing inline with demand.

A lot of Web agencies seem reluctant to pay for talent, preferring to save a few quid in the hope of finding someone cheap (due to inexperience) yet talented. I know it seems like good business sense but it's hardly a workable long-term employment strategy. Once your designers get experience, they're likely to go somewhere else on a much higher salary.

I know some very skilled Web Developers with 7 years+ experience being expected to work for €30k-€35k per annum. Which is, quite frankly, ridiculous - especially in a city as expensive as Dublin.

I guess it's just a matter of the industry being taken more seriously by both Web companies and also clients so that margins can increase and talent can be afforded. In its present form, the industry is loaded with poorly paid production staff and overpaid suits who are selling poor-mediocre quality work to naive clients. Which is why it's great to see companies like Spoilt Child, Metronet and gravitate being run by designers, developers and/or people passionate about the industry.

If salaries increase, I feel it will actually work for Web companies and not against them! Just ask the advertising industry! One thing's for sure though, it's not an employers market anymore.
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We have approx 50 staff not including contractors , strange when I seen the results so many companies that are only one staff member. I find it quite hard to believe that one person can offer all aspects of Web Dev to their clients, such as IA , PM, programming and design not to mention SEO
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We have approx 50 staff not including contractors , strange when I seen the results so many companies that are only one staff member. I find it quite hard to believe that one person can offer all aspects of Web Dev to their clients, such as IA , PM, programming and design not to mention SEO
50 is pretty huge for a Web company. Do you mind me asking which one?
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Oh yes, that's right. Now I remember. Well if you're in the US, that explains it. I don't think there's enough work in Ireland to necessitate to company of that size.
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