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Cost Of Living Crisis

Irish companies plan to raise pay budgets by 4.5 per cent this year

Survey by employee benefits company WTW finds inflation is main driver of rise in salary budgets

Overseas tech workers ‘pausing’ plans to relocate to Ireland - study

Recruitment firm Morgan McKinley says factors including the housing crisis and remote working options have also led technology workers to look elsewhere for employment

Irish staff not informed of job cuts as Reach announces 200 redundancies

Publisher of Irish Mirror and Irish Daily Star is making the cuts as part of a £30m cost-cutting drive

Ireland’s unemployment rate drops in December to 4.3%

December’s rate was lower than the 4.8 per cent level of unemployment recorded pre-pandemic, in December 2019

70% of staff at Enterprise Ireland-backed firms live outside Dublin as agency reports 20,000 new jobs

The agency’s client companies employed 218,178 people in 2022, with the government praising the ‘regional balance’ of these jobs

Twitter notifies Varadkar of 140 Irish redundancies

Figure is lower than the 250 job cuts previously reported

Brian Keegan: Despite external risks, domestic policy errors would do more harm

Conditions may be chaotic, but the outlook for the Irish exchequer is not necessarily bleak

Commercial Property

Workplaces adapting to evolving business practices with employee-centred changes

Offices which have good green credentials, have close proximity to public transport and which can improve our overall health and wellbeing are some of the requirements from the workplace that employees are now expecting

Companies should adopt ‘holistic approach’ to attracting and holding on to employees

Research from WTW shows that over a third of companies are expecting problems with attracting talent next year while over a half have concerns about how they can retain staff in 2023

Stripe accused of ‘back door layoffs’ as tech job fears grow

Managers have been asked to mark 10 per cent to 15 per cent of employees as ‘not meeting expectations’, according to report

This Working Life

Quiet quitting: something to worry about or a working reality?

There has been a lot of talk recently about workers not going the extra mile in their job, but is it something that employers should even expect?

This Working Life

Contracts are key to more flexible work arrangements

Since the pandemic, focus has shifted to what you can get done rather than where you are, which can suit both employers and workers looking for more flexible contract work

Dan O’Brien: If Ireland is such a ‘failed state’, then why do so many people want to live here?

Despite the popular narrative among some, over the past five years more Irish nationals have returned to live here than have emigrated, while strong employment figures suggest the economy can weather any coming storm

Central Bank to hire firm to help overseas employees relocate to Ireland

Regulator’s board warned over staffing pressures in recent months with bank set to hire a provider to help source accommodation in Ireland for new hires

Volatility of corporate tax represents risk to state’s income, Central Bank warns

Some €8.8bn in corporation tax was collected in the first six months of the year, well ahead of the same period in 2021

Job candidates’ demands are excessive, business leader survey finds

Bosses say that applicants asking too much in terms of pay and conditions is adding to rising costs for companies

Call for chefs to be included on critical skills list

Recruitment firm founder tells Oireachtas committee that cutting the visa processing timeframe would help to tackle the countrywide shortage in the sector

John Wood Group appoints Irishman as chief executive

Sligo native Ken Gilmartin will head up the Scottish-based global engineering firm, which employs 40,000 and generated revenue of $6.4 billion last year

Ian Guider: Why the civil service could do with some outsiders

It simply cannot be the case that the only people capable of performing the civil service roles in question come from within its own ranks

Ian Guider: Dangerous divide opens up between multinational staff and other workers

The widening fissure between domestic employers and multinationals represents a big threat to Ireland’s enterprise policy