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Kim O'Leary

Google to lay off 240 Irish staff as part of global job cuts

Google is set to cut 240 jobs in Ireland as part of global layoffs announced last month.

Google’s European Headquarters are located in the Dublin Docklands and it has a full-time employee base of 5,500 staff. It is understood that 85 of the layoffs will be in sales, 80 jobs will go in technology and engineering, and the remaining 75 job cuts will impact support functions.

Google staff were being informed of the job cuts on Wednesday morning. The company has said that a consultation period with staff is set to begin from Thursday.

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Google has made the Department of Enterprise aware of the job cuts. In January, Google’s parent company Alphabet announced plans to cut around 12,000 jobs globally.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said at the time that cuts were in response to “a different economic reality than the one we face today." He wrote: "We’ve undertaken a rigorous review across product areas and functions to ensure that our people and roles are aligned with our highest priorities as a company."

Last month Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney met with the head of Google Ireland following the global announcement. Minister Coveney said at the time: "Given the fact there are over 5,000 permanent employees in Google and another 4,500 contractors that work with Google here in Ireland, the idea that there wouldn't be some impact here I think is not realistic.

Twitter, Meta, Stripe, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, HubSpot and Salesforce have all announced cuts to their workforces in Ireland in recent months.

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