Facebook's Clonee Data Centre jobs not affected by global job cuts

Meta, the parent company of Facebook has announced that it will be reducing the size of its global team by about 13 per cent and let more than 11,000 employees go.

There are approximately 3,000 Meta employees in Ireland excluding contractors and those supplying services to Meta/Facebook employed by third parties. Based on a global jobs cull of 13% that could represent over 390 jobs being at risk in Ireland.

While keeping tightlipped on numbers affected by this morning's decision at its Irish sites, a spokesperson did confirm to the Meath Chronicle that "Meta employees and contractors based at the Data Centre in Clonee are not impacted by today’s announcement. In brief, there will be no redundancies at the Clonee Data Centre."

This morning, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was "making the hard, but necessary, decision to restructure parts of the company, including laying off some employees."

This announcement will impact full-time Meta employees in Ireland, although it's not clear how many from this morning's announcement. The decision does not affect contract workers employed by third-parties.

A spokesperperson for Meta said that "the timeline and process (for layoffs) will be defined by Irish government guidelines which will see potentially impacted employees entering collective consultation.

"Meta has informed the relevant policy stakeholders – the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, IDA.

"As the location of our international HQ, Ireland is an integral part of our company and our operations. Today’s announcement and the process does not have any impact on Ireland’s status, or on our long-term investment plans in Ireland. We appreciate Ireland’s and in particular the Irish Government’s ongoing support for our operations here.

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