Adrian Weckler: As Meta sheds a third of its Irish workers, is our Big Tech golden goose cooked?
Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Bloomberg
Adrian Weckler
At any time, 840 jobs cut from a 3,000-person operation would be worrying. But when it’s Meta – a bellwether tech giant that is often held up as a symbol of Ireland’s industrial relevance – it asks us to hold a mirror up to ourselves.
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