Skillsoft sheds 60 jobs, EMC waits

TRAINING software maker Skillsoft, formerly SmartForce, is cutting 60 jobs in Ireland and this figure could rise to 140, while workers at EMC hope a 7% reduction in its workforce worldwide will not result in job losses here.

The SmartForce job losses are as a result of the company's merger with SkillSoft. The company said most of the job cuts were voluntary and it pledged to maintain its primary research and development operations, employing about 250 people.

And data storage company EMC, which employs more than 1,300 people in Cork and Dublin, has