Facebook-owner Meta to cut almost 500 jobs from Irish workforce

The latest wave of job cuts is set to shrink Meta’s Irish workforce to 2,600 and will impact around 6,000 jobs in total across its global operations.

Staff across a number of teams at its Irish operations including finance, sales, marketing, analytics, operations, and engineering are at risk of losing their job. Photographer: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

Facebook-owner Meta has announced approximately 490 employees at its Irish operations will be made redundant as part of the multinational’s latest round of lay-offs amid the ongoing global tech slowdown.

Meta informed government that full-time employees at the tech giant will be impacted by the latest round of redundancies and contract workers will not be affected. The latest wave of job cuts is set to shrink Meta’s Irish workforce to just over 2,000 and will impact around 6,000 jobs in total across its global operations.