Meta employs around 1,800 people in Ireland, some of whom will lose their jobs as part of Meta laying off 10pc of its workforce.
Technology giant Meta will reportedly lay off as many as 350 Ireland-based employees as part of its plans to cut 8,000 people from the globally-dispersed workforce, representing around 10pc of its staff worldwide.
Early this morning (20 May) staff in Ireland received an email informing them that some people will be impacted by the global redundancies and Meta has since submitted a collective redundancy notification to the Department of Enterprise.
In late April it was reported that Meta had told its staff that 10pc of the workforce would be let go, apparently as a means of mitigating the costs of heavy AI spending and investment, with the first cuts expected in late May.
At the time, Meta’s chief people officer Janelle Gale, said: “We’re doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making.”
