Ireland will be relatively slightly affected by global job cuts by multinational high-tech companies, according to an analytical article published on the RTÉ website on February 12.
It is noted that companies that announced global redundancies, as a rule, reduce Irish staff less than worldwide. So Microsoft, which was planning to cut 5% of its staff worldwide, will lay off 120 people in Ireland, not 175 of the 3,500 who work in Irish offices.
Amazon Corporation, which nearly laid off 18,000 workers worldwide, will turn away services in Ireland from 50 to 70 employees out of 5,000. Ireland has reduced the number of layoffs, first to 350 and now to nearly 300.
At the same time, Salesforce, which planned to cut staff by 10%, will lay off 200 of the 2,100 people in Ireland.
As the article points out, rejection of dismissals may be related to the profile of Irish employees.
“Technologists in areas like AI, cybersecurity or data analytics have really valuable skills., explained Una Fitzpatrick, director of Technology Ireland, Ibec group. — I’m sure some companies have made a decision to try to retain and retain key people, so I think from an Irish point of view, we have strengths in terms of the depth and strength of the people who are here and maybe companies are trying to keep as much as they can. more of these top technicians”.
According to Fitzpatrick, this will lead to the fact that the reductions in Ireland will not be so great. High-tech journalist and For Tech Sake podcast host Elaine Burke pointed out that the fact is that companies like Meta (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), Google and Microsoft have big offices in Ireland because they have big interests. in the region. and therefore will not significantly reduce staff.
Recall, the Minister of Entrepreneurship, Trade and Employment Simon Kovney recently returned from a trip to the United States, where he negotiated with representatives of high-tech companies. At the end of the trip, he said that the reduction in staff of these companies in Ireland will not be as great as in the whole world.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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