Drip feed of redundancies provides a case study in risks to the Irish economy from tech downturn via IrishTimesBiz
The bulk of the 651 employees of Shopify’s Dublin-based subsidiary Shopify International Limited in 2021 were in sales and marketing roles, according to its company accounts.
Shopify did not respond when asked how many employees in Ireland had been made redundant and declined to make a representative available for interview. “I was like: f**k,” Ann remembers. “I told the guys: I think I’m going to be gone in half an hour. Because I have the same meeting.”Former staff quoted in this article have used pseudonyms because they believe themselves to be forbidden from talking about the company by non-disclosure agreements. They were among the waves of people to be let go from Shopify over the winter, and many of them had been with the company for years.
“Since those lay-offs, the culture there and the environment has completely changed. Everyone’s anxious all the time,” says Niamh, a former Shopify employee in a small town who abruptly found herself reliant on social welfare over the winter.
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