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How Enovus partners found opportunity in tech layoffs

Brian Donnelly and Nick Jeffers founded Enovus Labs, which now solves challenging thermal and mechanical problems, after they were caught in the recent wave of tech-sector layoffs and made redundant from Nokia Bell Labs

Enovus founders Brian Donnelly and Nick Jeffers

News of global tech sector layoffs proliferated in the media early this year, but the story doesn’t always follow up with what happens next. Ireland, having carved out a reputation as an international hub for sci-tech industries, suffered heavily from these job cuts. In fact, EU agency Eurofound determined that Ireland was “by far the country most affected by big tech restructurings” in the EU, accounting for the largest proportion of all redundancies from 2020 ...