I swear that hardly a week goes by that I don't see a story similar to this one I turned up last week via the Irish news service, RTÉ:

Seventy jobs are to be lost as internet security company Symantec confirmed plans to move operations from its Dublin plant to the Czech Republic. The move to the Czech Republic will see 40 initial job losses by the end of October, with another 30 posts expected to be cut in the first half of next year.

I really don't get this.  Everyone I talk to within the industry seems to be equally perplexed by the continued influx of companies into the local market.  Recruiters tell me that they're having a tough time filling the positions coming their way and that a lot of these companies come in with unrealistic expectations as to salary and other employment-related expenses.  Corporate IT managers are being forced to sweeten employment offers in order to compete for the candidates that are available.  And still, they keep coming.

Roman Staněk wrote a piece the other day to serve as sort of a permanent response to all the people who keep asking him about establishing an offshore development center in the Czech Republic. Essentially he says that, yes, this probably was a good deal back before the Czech crown started its massive rise and when competition for technical resources wasn't so fierce, but anyone who comes here now looking for cheap, high-quality tech staff is in for a very rude awakening.

So what's the draw here?  Does anyone have any insight into this?  Obviously CzechInvest is out selling the benefits of setting up shop in the ČR to anyone who'll listen and probably offering some nice subsidies for companies willing to take the plunge and create enough new jobs, but are those companies that are still moving here working off of old information or do they know something that the rest of us don't?