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Workhuman hosts Caribbean cruise for select staff while others face redundancy

Internal documents reveal that the Irish tech unicorn hosted a week-long trip for its so-called ‘President’s Club’ less than two weeks after confirming plans to cut 10 per cent of its workforce

Eric Mosley, chief executive, Workhuman: firm says he didn’t go on Caribbean trip. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Eric Mosley could scarcely have been more sombre as he informed staff at Workhuman, the Irish tech unicorn he heads up, that 10 per cent of them would be losing their jobs.

“Over the years we’ve made many changes to how Workhuman operates, but none is harder than the one I’m sharing today,” Mosley, the company’s founder and chief executive, wrote in an email to the firm’s 1,300 staff in Dublin and the US on ...