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Ciarán Hancock

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342 total appearances

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

That's roughly 20% of the workforce still left here.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

Now, over the past three years, three and a half years, they've let go essentially half their workforce in Ireland.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

Plus, contractors, Cavallon, let 700 go recently.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

So a lot of contractors have been

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

let go as well.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

I was looking at the Twitter accounts for 2024.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

They used to have 375 staff here, which is actually less than I thought.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

But they're now down, or certainly by the end of 2024, it might be less now, they were down to 108.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

So 270, roughly, staff had left in that period.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

And we know that Elon Musk

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

He took a knife to exes, as it's known now, when he took over in that takeover there.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

When was it?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

2022, I think.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

So at what point do the job cuts that are happening in the multinational sector, because it's not just those companies, Intel has been laying off people and other companies have been sort of quietly laying off people.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

At what point does that begin to feed into a softening in Irish house prices?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

Yeah.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

And should we conclude from this?

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

I mean, you're an economist, so put your economist hat on.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

Well, you probably always wear it.

Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock
Rents and evictions soar as house price inflation slows

But should we conclude from this that the meta staff and the ex-staff and the people at other tech companies who are being laid off, they're finding other employment, maybe not as well paid, but they are finding other employment in the economy?