Job losses in Ireland - Megathread

It's possible. Microsoft is also a strong company. However they might find it difficult to attract international employees to relocate to Dublin with no housing available.

Salesforce.com seem to be in a similar situation regarding layoffs. However they are not as shiny and flashy as the Microsoft presence.

Salesforce.com was actually a quite good and stable employer in Dublin. A bit self centered and self important, but good and stable in terms of product development and employment stability.

Theyve started charging now. Those lockdown exploratory licenses are dying.

Their new office is amazing!! Again they only letting mainly sales and support go, keeping their developers(the good ones)

Not certain, how they do that. I suppose if it's real deadwood it makes sense to fire them. However in the current case it's the company's performance, or lack of it for the layoffs. International sales roles and customer success roles have been reduced. People do find different jobs, often somewhere else. It'll be hard to attract them to Dublin where shared housing with strangers is reality.

The way the Irish government is treating those international IT companies in Ireland, I would suspect that these companies do have the upper hand, and the government is just out to create a favourable environment for them. Better an income of low corporation tax than nothing at all. Also they are seen as a success of Ireland.

Even after the pandemic, working only 2 or 3 days of the week in the office seems to be the reality in the IT sector. Provided that one doesn't have to be physically on site to perform the job. Thus less space is required as it used to be.

I don't know if Microsoft really owns that new office in Leopardstown. It's possible that Microsoft sold that office to some fund and is now leasing it back for a certain amount of years. I also think they were renting out office space to others like Arvato Systems or Salesforce in their older office on Blackthorn Road near the LUAS Sandyford depot. Who owns that building now, I don't know.

Oracle Ireland doesn't own the office in East Wall. With IBM Mulhuddart I would suspect they own this site, as they have been there very long, but that doesn't mean anything.

Dell doing their every couple of years cutting 5% of jobs craic. Be a few hundred gone in Ireland out of that. And then they'll hire people for all these jobs again in a few quarters.

Slowdown in PC sales has bog all impact on what Dell does here now.

Not necessary tech jobs, sales aren't tech jobs, call centre is not tech jobs.

The market is still hot for developers out there

Not a lot obviously.

Only 350 in Ireland gone out of 11000 globally in the first cut, so a similar number again from 10000 would be about 320 in ireland.

Total of 670 out of over 3000 staff before the cuts.

So still about 2,300- 2,400 full time staff plus the 6000 contractors unaffected in first cut at least.

Hopefully the 320ish is about right for Ireland.

That isnt too bad and probably rightsizes the ops back to where they were in 2019.

Another 490 jobs gone from that sh1tshow of a company

Theres still 2000 after all 3 rounds of cuts (down from 2600) full time staff plus all the contractors in Dublin and we need the good jobs.

They only had 1300 Full time staff at the end of 2019, so they still have grown considerably in the last 3 years.

If they werent here, they would be somewhere else. They wouldnt dissapear.

Is Cork reality labs affected does anyone know?

What impact to the contractors in Dublin whom outnumber the full time staff anyway?

I think this more of a rightsizing after covid inflated ad revenue (plus metaverse flop - although i dont think that duckling is dead yet)