Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg image : Facebook

Facebook has announced its adding 1,000 jobs at its international headquarters in Ireland, a second major jobs announcement from a U.S. multinational in a matter of days. The social networking giant began work last year on a new campus in the Irish capital of Dublin which it said would increase its footprint by 4 times in the city and enable it double its current headcount of over 4,000.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the new roles would be principally assigned to crackdown of abuse taking place on its site. “Facebook has had a hard time these last few years, and that is because we need to do a better job keeping people safe on our platform,” She said at a speech in Dublin.

Facebook’s Dublin Office image : Facebook

“We’re not the same company we were, even a few years ago, and that is something we have to prove. We have massively ramped up investment in safety and security. This means jobs. We do a lot of that in Ireland and today we’re going to be hiring an additional 1,000 people in Ireland in the next year alone.”

Facebook employs 25,000 people globally, up from 150 in 2006, It runs a number of global and regional teams across four locations in Ireland where it started with 30 employees a decade ago. Salesforce also announced it would more than double its workforce in the country by hiring 1,500 people over the next five years.

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