Tech Lay-Offs

Julie Sweet described mass layoffs as an ‘opportunity’

Jennifer O’Connell: There is an end-of-days feel to recent news reports from the tech world

Consulting firm to slash jobs and cut office space in the next 18 months

Projections from employer’s industry group would bring tech redundancies in Ireland to over 5,000

Irish staff being briefed as group chief executive warns of challenging period for revenue at the business

State agency appears before Public Accounts Committee to discuss its results

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Workhuman, which specialises in employee reward and incentive programmes for companies worldwide, employs 600 people in Ireland

Latest lay-offs add to 18,000 staff culled in January as company cuts costs following tech downturn

Healthcare sector now accounting comfortably for the largest number of new work permits granted

Final figure could be higher still

Analysis: How this new bout of reductions will impact Irish staff is unknown

Facebook and Instagram parent to cut 10,000 jobs, won’t fill 5,000 open roles

Executive has worked with Facebook/Meta for 14 years, but only took over as head of the Irish operation last year

The Icelandic entrepreneur, who has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair, contacted the Twitter CEO through a tweet to find out if he was sacked

Company cut 11,000 staff, including 350 in Ireland, last year

Latest job losses are linked to January announcement of 10,000 job cuts worldwide

Payments company also plans to downsize offices, closing its Dundalk hub and seeking a smaller Dublin office

Youth and long-term joblessness numbers encouraging but hospitality has ground to make up

Senior team leaders, including Esther Crawford, among those locked out of systems or fired by email

Latest CSO figures indicate number of working-age adults in employment increased by 68,600 last year

Tech giant the latest global operator to implement Irish cuts

Move comes following January announcement that parent company Alphabet would shed 12,000 jobs globally

Revenue at South African advisory group’s European HQ in Ireland grows tenfold over first six years

CSO figures show goods exports hit a record €208 billion last year

If you find yourself affected by the recent slate of job cuts, it’s important to know what you’re entitled to and how to maximise your benefit

Minister for Enterprise expects job growth from multinationals this year

CEOs fire workers swiftly and brutally, but such actions have destructive long-term effects for companies and staff

Company announced global job cuts in January amid a sharp correction in tech

Company employs more than 2,000 people in Ireland

IT Sunday: The case is awkward for the State because it has consistently failed to deny that religious righteousness trumps everybody else’s rights

Bleak earnings forecasts have punished the technology giant

One by one, different companies started to fall, a domino effect that resulted in new announcements every week

Two firms employ more than 5,000 in Ireland between them

Cautious consumers around the world will force companies to absorb higher costs for longer

Restructuring continues in the technology sector and while it may just be cyclical it is another pointer to lower economic growth this year

Streaming firm becomes latest tech giant to cut jobs

Reports forecasts core economic growth of just 0.7 per cent this year with a growing focus on housing as commencements slow

Tech giant is latest firm to announce thousands of job cuts

Computing giant, which employs about 3,500 people in Ireland, plans to cut its workforce worldwide