Job losses mean Irish workforce among hardest hit in global redundancy programme but group says its ‘firmly committed’ to operation
The job losses at Accenture bring to just under 2,300 the known redundancies in the Irish tech sector over the past eight months.
A high proportion of Accenture’s Irish staff work for technology companies, including social media giants such as Facebook owner Meta, and Twitter, recently re-named X, which have their European headquarters in Dublin. Confirming the plan, Accenture said it would begin consulting with workers on its latest proposed redundancies. “We do not plan to comment further while the consultation process is ongoing,” the firm added.
Simon Coveney, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, said State agencies would work with the affected staff and Accenture to assess if there were openings elsewhere for them. Mr Nash stressed that the firm should ensure that the month-long consultation considered all alternatives to the proposed level of job losses.
She argued the minister should “take stock of the breadth and scale of job losses across the sector, and investigate how many of those who have lost their jobs are being re-employed”.
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