Dell to add 300 more jobs, extra building

[Pete]

Dell to Add 300 More Jobs, Build Another 120,000 Square-Foot Facility in Oklahoma City
Posted: Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Dell to Add 300 More Jobs, Build Another 120,000 Square-Foot Facility in Oklahoma City

Dell Inc. announced this afternoon it will be hiring at least another 300 employees in Oklahoma City and will be building an additional 120,000 facility off the Oklahoma River at its developing campus off Portland Avenue and S.W. 15th Street.

The company already has broken ground on the second building and a company spokeswoman said it would be a mirror image of the company's first building on the campus, which is expected to be completed and ready for the company's metro-area employees to move into by summer's end. She indicated the second building would be ready for employees by the first quarter of 2006.

When Dell first announced it was locating a customer sales center in Oklahoma City, it indicated it would be employing about 500 employees. The company adjusted that number to 700 employees just four months later. Thus, today's announcement of additional hires represents a 100 percent increase from the company's initial projections.

In a prepared news release, Dell's general manager of contact centers, Karen Quintos, said the additional hires were a result of the company's local operations exceeding performance expectations since taking the first call on September 7, 2004.

Quintos said Dell's total workforce in Oklahoma City would be 1,000 employees by 2006.

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett said of today's announcement by Dell: "The announced expansion plan shows tremendous confidence in our workforce and confirms the company's commitment to Oklahoma City."

Currently, Dell and its employees operate out of the Hertz Financial Center off of N.W. 63rd and Northwest Expressway.

[mranderson]

Actually, this is only the beginning. The call center, which is formally called a "customer contact center," will eventually have eight buildings and up to 5,000 employees.

It is a gradual phase which will take several years.

[Pete]

5,000 jobs will put Dell way up on the list of OKC-area employers:


38,100 State of Oklahoma Oklahoma City Govt.
26,000 Tinker Air Force Base Oklahoma City Govt.
8,706 U.S. Postal Service Oklahoma City Govt.
7,902 University of Oklahoma Norman Education
5,900 Oklahoma City Public Schools Oklahoma City Education
5,600 FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center Oklahoma City Govt.
4,320 City of Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Govt.
4,102 INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center Oklahoma City Health
3,400 General Motors Corporation Assembly Plant Oklahoma City Mfg.
3,200 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City Education

[mranderson]

Yes. It will make Dell the largest private employer in Oklahoma City in one single location.

5,000 jobs will put Dell way up on the list of OKC-area employers:


38,100 State of Oklahoma Oklahoma City Govt.
26,000 Tinker Air Force Base Oklahoma City Govt.
8,706 U.S. Postal Service Oklahoma City Govt.
7,902 University of Oklahoma Norman Education
5,900 Oklahoma City Public Schools Oklahoma City Education
5,600 FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center Oklahoma City Govt.
4,320 City of Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Govt.
4,102 INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center Oklahoma City Health
3,400 General Motors Corporation Assembly Plant Oklahoma City Mfg.
3,200 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City Education

[fromdust]

look at this. mr anderson just said they are going to have 8 buildings. we have been talking about downtown highrises in other threads. couldnt the city made some kind of deal with dell; like some kind of incentives package or something, to build downtown? they were bending over backwards for bass pro to locate here, right? 8 of those dell buildings stacked onto each other would make a nice addition to our skyline. it would also save space instead of sprawling it over a ton of land. yeah, 5000 people would fill up the high rise nicely. if the city is going to bend over backwards for a company it should have been dell and not bass pro. dell is going to be a greater force in the economy than bass pro ever will.


they could have been our answer to another skyscraper dt.

[mranderson]

Michael Dell does not believe in high rises. He wants some uniformity in the buildings across the nation. In fact, the maximum he will build is three floors. This is because Austin has strict height codes, and he wants all buildings to be the same number of floors. Hence eight buildings for a total of 2,000,000 square feet.

[Curt]

look at this. mr anderson just said they are going to have 8 buildings. we have been talking about downtown highrises in other threads. couldnt the city made some kind of deal with dell; like some kind of incentives package or something, to build downtown? they were bending over backwards for bass pro to locate here, right? 8 of those dell buildings stacked onto each other would make a nice addition to our skyline. it would also save space instead of sprawling it over a ton of land. yeah, 5000 people would fill up the high rise nicely. if the city is going to bend over backwards for a company it should have been dell and not bass pro. dell is going to be a greater force in the economy than bass pro ever will.


they could have been our answer to another skyscraper dt.

You'd only get sick of all the sky scrapers, trust me. When you look up in the middle of the city and cant see the sky because of all the bulidings.

[Pete]

Tech companies like office parks / campuses for various reasons.

It's all you see in the Silicon Valley, for example. For all the big companies located there, you see almost zero buildings over 5 floors.