Dublin talent squeeze forces &Open to open Lisbon hub

The corporate gifting platform expects to have tripled its headcount by the end of this year

Mark Legge, Ciara Flood and Jonathan Legge. Jonathan says “It’s a great time to be looking for work, particularly if you are creative and in the engineering space as there are a lot of businesses in need.”

&Open, the Dublin-based corporate gifting platform with a long list of high-profile clients, has been forced to open a hub in Lisbon as the talent pool in Ireland has become too small, Jonathan Legge, co-founder and chief executive, has told the Business Post.

Legge who co-founded the business with Ciara Flood, his partner and Mark Legge, his brother, said &Open will have tripled its headcount by the end of this year but the business had ...