Ireland's Amazon workers may escape worst of job cuts announcement

Many of the 5,000 staff at Amazon’s operations in Ireland include software and network engineers in addition to warehouse workers in the company’s fulfilment centre in Dublin.

 Amazon is preparing to cut 18,000 jobs in response to the economic downturn.

Amazon’s workforce in Ireland is likely to escape the full effect of the multinational’s latest job cuts announcement, which will largely impact those with retail roles.

Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy said in a blog post that the company plans to increase the number of planned job cuts from 10,000, announced in November, to 18,000 due to the “uncertain economy”.