UK Business

How Ireland's 'great reshuffle' could benefit women and older workers

Written by Maeve O'Sullivan, Assistant professor of Decent Work & Human Resource Management, University of Galway

Dublin's 'Silicon Docks'.Faina Gurevich / Shutterstock

Recent global tech sector layoffs have hit Ireland’s workforce hard. Prior to these job cuts, the Irish digital sector directly employed more than 270,000 people, as well as creating many more ancillary jobs.

Tech jobs pay an average annual salary of €74,000 (£64,000) in...

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