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Google HQ in Dublin. Photo: Google Maps
A total of 240 jobs are set to be cut from from Google's Irish-based workforce as part of global layoffs announced last month.
Staff are understood to have been informed by email today (Wednesday) with a collective consultation process due to begin tomorrow.
Of those layoffs, 85 will be in sales, technology and engineering will see 80 jobs go, while the remaining 75 job cuts will be in support functions.
It is estimated that the 240 job losses represent around 4% of Google's 5,500 Irish-based headcount.
Google's parent company Alphabet announced last months that it was cutting 6% of its global workforce., with 12,000 jobs expected to go.
Minister Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney told RTÉ News in the wake of this that they would have to wait an see the full scale of jobs losses at the time.
"But I can assure you, that people who are working for Google today, who are impacted by this, will not have a difficulty in finding tech jobs in other areas of the economy, and we will work with them to make sure that happens," the minister said.
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