Crescono i timori nel governo per ulteriori perdite di posti di lavoro nel settore tecnologico dopo che Meta ha tagliato il 20% della forza lavoro irlandese
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/05/21/fears-grow-in-government-over-further-tech-job-losses/
di leavemealonethanks
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“You ain’t seen nothing yet…!”
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I lost mine today 🌝
Meta is a pos company like its pos creator.
People should just mass delete their accounts
Honestly doesn’t look great for the tech sector in the years ahead unless people are shifting to very different roles. It feels like people are overplaying the hope that AI will be a complete disaster. The reality is of it is that we’re likely to be moving into an era where designing software becomes high level systems planning and design rather than coding, which will just be largely fully automated.
It was 10% yesterday
Thank God they used all that tax money to improve the public infrastructure before the Meta well dries up
The economy is doing great /s
“While no formal indication has been given to Government by the tech companies that more job cuts are coming, it is understood that industry figures have privately warned Ministers and officials that as many as 80 per cent of tech jobs globally could be lost over the coming decade.”
80% sounds like a bit of fear mongering. Hard to imagine there will be anything as extreme as that over the next decade.
Looks like this is the start of the mass layoffs due to AI. Wouldn’t be feeling too secure in the tech sector atm
Knowing what we know about social media, in particular Meta, providing labour for these companies is abhorrent.
If these tech behemoths reduce the workforce, will they still be able to funnel their profits through us at an extremely advantageous tax rate? Cos surely “jobs” were one of the main reasons they’re getting said rate.
Man, I’d love to take the piss out of the government for wanting datacenters so more staff can be laid off…but sadly not this time 🙁
Staples/Semiconductors are massively diverging as only 10 companies hold up the markets. Basically the economy isn’t doing too well under the hood. Credit Default Swaps are rocketing on Meta as investors bet that Meta won’t generate the revenue to repay the debt that’s becoming more expensive due to increasing interest rates. The AI shitshow is unfolding before all our eyes, and the layoffs won’t be due to AI but rather because all these companies blew the fuck out of their cash accounts to get lost in a mania.
Just to add, there’s an outside bet that AI might actually increase employment in the tech sector when all the AI technical debt comes due. After the crash tho.
I wish we had more local homegrown companies in Ireland than depending on US because they are about to go down economy wise.
Question will some this be good for cooling the rental market?
We were warned that massively increasing spending would be a risk. The public sector are largely out of control.
Worries me how the fuck im going to pay for my mortgage in a few years time if im let go.
I might have to reskill but im at a loss to figure out what to do also
Its only the beginning
Can we slap them with windfall taxes now? Or do we still need the low tax paradigm to attract multinationals for jobs? How about an AI windfall tax too
I genuinely hate how meta chains really helpful community tools like local Facebook groups or niche communities (like, a Facebook group for your neighbourhood) to an algorithmic bile machine that spits out racism and misogyny.
I get it, racism, misogyny and large groups of people constantly being angry is what’s profitable, but what’s *useful* is like a digital village noticeboard with like 200 people in it.
AI, great bunch of lads they told us…
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Never met a meta worker who said anything positive about the company
15% of people pay 75% of income tax. Hope the rest are prepared for tax increases.
Meta is a basket case run by a moron who blows through cash on nonsense.
They are not, as much as they wish, a wind sail company telling you how the wind is blowing.
It’s also a gross company and the staff let go should take it as a chance to work for a more meaningful company and providing real value to the world.
Tip of the Iceberg, I think July-August is going to be a blood bath,
But we’re such a wealthy country! The GDP! It’ll ever dry up!
So 350 Indians are going home.