RTE bosses are confident they will easily get 400 voluntary redundancies to slash their costs over the next few years.
It is understood that between 150 to 200 staff members will be eligible for early retirement during the time period while others will be asked to transfer to Cork which may not suit them.
Negotiations will begin soon with union representatives to see what sort of redundancy package is on the table. The station is to be given €40 million by the Government to pay for the layoffs.
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While all the public focus has been on the big earners like Joe Duffy, Claire Byrne and Miriam O'Callaghan, it is understood that all RTE's technical and engineering staff are really angry at the way they are being treated.
The station is going to sell its dilapidated Cork studio, where the Today Show with Maura Derrane and Daithi O Se, is broadcast live for nine months of the year and lease out new modern automated studios in the southern city.
Bosses in Cork have been involved in long-term negotiations for the move into a new modern building at 1 Albert Quay in the city centre.
This will give them a large amount of studio space and allow them to produce extensive programmes at half the cost of doing it in Dublin.
Many of the Cork staff are also on lower salaries than their Dublin colleagues.
The head of RTE in Cork, Colm Crowley, has previously worked as a producer and director on both BBC and ITV, and is seen as a shrewd operator.
He has been involved in intense talks with the new Director General Kevin Bakhurst to see how they can transform RTE in the modern media age and make it more financially secure long term.
Meetings are set to start taking place over the next few weeks to see what programmes can be shifted to Cork.
The hugely popular Nationwide programme is also run from the Cork studios.
An RTE source said: "We are confident we will get the numbers we need without having to make compulsory job losses. There are a lot of older staff who are due to retire soon and they will be given good deals to leave early.
"We also want to keep and protect all the young talent that we have and the changes being planned will be a huge boost for our regions, especially Cork.
"There is no need for us to make as many programmes as we do in Dublin."
