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Tech Jobs

Google workers’ performances since Covid-19 pandemic to be reviewed as part of Irish job cuts

The tech giant will assess workers’ ratings as one of the criteria that will decide who is laid off, as fears grow that it will impose compulsory redundancies on low performers
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 9, 2023
Tech

Google pulls funding for upgrade of public streets around European HQ in Dublin

Dublin City Council says Google ‘remains committed to the project, but is unable to commit additional resources at this stage’
  • Cónal Thomas
  • March 8, 2023
Tech

Number of confirmed layoffs in tech sector ‘almost certain’ to be an underestimate – Central Bank

A number of large multi-national firms in the Information and Communication Technology services sector announced reductions to their global workforces last year and early this year
  • Ellie Donnelly
  • March 6, 2023
Energy

Data centre giants warn minister over delays to back-up energy permits

Microsoft, Amazon and Google seek to expedite applications to EPA for industrial emissions licences needed to ease any future power emergencies
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 5, 2023
Tech

Coveney urged to intervene in Google job cuts and ask firm to avoid compulsory layoffs

Financial Services Union has asked the Minister for Enterprise to use the ‘influence of his office’ to stop compulsory redundancies
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 3, 2023
Jobs

Google will consider staff performance in layoff decisions

The tech giant will factor in productivity and performance evaluations when deciding who to lay off as it reduces its global workforce by 6 per cent
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 26, 2023
Jobs

Google staff from ‘precarious’ countries like Ukraine must be protected in Irish layoffs, firm warned

Tech giant will begin a 30-day consultation period tomorrow as part of plans to cut 240 roles from its Irish operation
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 22, 2023
Connected

Eamon Carey: Why liberal arts is the new engineering

As AI hits the mainstream, engineers are going to have to collaborate more with others
  • Eamonn Carey
  • February 22, 2023
Tech

240 jobs cut at Google Ireland with sales and engineering staff impacted

Company had already signalled its plan to lay off 12,000 workers around the world
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 22, 2023
Climate & Environment

Dublin port and congested quays fare poorly as capital’s first air quality map released

Data project carried out by Google and Dublin City Council is a first for an Irish city and will help inform future environmental decisions
  • Emmet Ryan
  • February 14, 2023
Tech

‘People are realising that work won’t love you back’: Why tech workers are turning to unions

The idea of a tech union in Ireland would have seemed fanciful just a few years ago, but the recent batch of layoffs in the sector has changed the game
  • Donal MacNameeand
  • Aaron Rogan
  • February 11, 2023
Jobs

‘Large group’ of Irish Google workers turn to union as tech crunch bites

The Financial Services Union has seen an influx of new members from the tech giant and other firms such as Stripe
  • Aaron Rogan
  • February 5, 2023
Connected

Raising Generation Google

Without Jessica McCarthy, your day wouldn’t go so smoothly. Emmet Ryan spoke to Google’s head of engineering in Dublin about her wish to change the face of the tech sector
  • Emmet Ryan
  • January 28, 2023
Companies

Irish Google employees to hear of jobs outcome within weeks

The tech giant plans to cut its global workforce by 12,000 and will carry out an assessment on its Irish operations to assess the level of job cuts here
  • Lorcan Allen
  • January 21, 2023
Business Post's View

Editorial: Tech growth unlikely to come off the tracks despite layoffs

Job cuts in Google and Microsoft are a response to shareholder pressure to lower costs, rather than a crisis
  • Business Post
  • January 21, 2023
Tech

Simon Coveney to meet Google Ireland boss to ‘clarify’ scale of job losses here

Early warning notice issued to government over job losses at Google in Ireland but scale of cuts not yet clear
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 20, 2023
Jobs

Google chief executive says Irish job cuts will take longer to implement than US

Sundar Pichai wrote to non-US employees today to tell them that the tech giant was cutting 12,000 jobs globally
  • Aaron Rogan
  • January 20, 2023
Jobs

Google jobs in Ireland could be at risk as tech giant announces 12,000 redundancies globally

The company, which employs around 8,000 people in Ireland, plans to cut 6 per cent of its workforce
  • Business Post
  • January 20, 2023
Companies

Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts

Collison brothers’ ecommerce unicorn continues to cut value of shares in face of tech sector shrinkage
  • Lorcan Allen
  • January 14, 2023
Data Centres

Amazon, Microsoft seek licences to power data centres with fossil fuels amid energy supply warnings

Big Tech firms applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for permission to operate diesel generators in case they are cut off from the power grid in an emergency scenario
  • Donal MacNamee
  • December 1, 2022

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