06:54 PM ET 06/03/98
Dell-Europeans balk at moving for jobs
LANGEN, Germany, June 3 (Reuters) - Dell Computer Corp on Wednesday urged Germans and other Europeans to become more mobile and flexible in pursuit of the high-paying jobs being created by the computer industry. The company, the world's second largest PC supplier, said it was struggling to fill the 600 European jobs and the 50 to 60 German jobs it creates each quarter. "It is very hard to find good people in Europe today," said Dell Europe chief Jan Gesmar-Larsen at a news conference. "We would like to hire more. We are about 1,000 short in Europe right now." Gesmar-Larsen said that Europeans often hesitate to move to new cities for job opportunities. "It's not just getting someone to move from Stockholm to Frankfurt. It's hard to get someone to move from Munich to Frankfurt," he said. Chairman and founder Michael Dell said that, in the United States, Dell regularly recruits employees to its Austin, Texas, headquarters from other cities. In the U.S. Dell hires between 100 and 150 people per week. It employs about 18,000 worldwide, including 5,500 in Europe and about 400 in Germany.
((Neal Boudette, Frankfurt Newsroom, +49 69 756525,
frankfurt.newsroom@reuters.com))
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