Apple’s European headquarters in Cork, Ireland, have been open since 1980 and have expanded to today house around 6,000 employees in various functions. Some of these have not been located in Hollyhill, where the headquarters are located, so Apple has also rented office space in the center of Cork.
Now reports RTE that Apple wants to expand in Hollyhill with a new four-storey office building with space for about 1,300 employees, but also covered walkways and a “commuter hub” with bicycle parking and chargers for electric bicycles to motivate more employees to get to work in an environmentally friendly way.
The expansion comes at a time when many companies, including Apple in Ireland, have introduced “hybrid work” where employees are allowed to work from home some days and in the office others. According to RTE, the new building will mainly house new employees in, among other things, AI and machine learning, and the office inside Cork will continue to be open.
The expansion must now be approved by Cork’s city planning office, and if it goes as Apple wants, the new buildings will be completed in 2025.
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