Cliff Taylor
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1,456 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Cliff Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Obviously, AI doing jobs that people would have done before.
Software development being the most obvious area where that seems to be deployed at the moment in businesses.
But some of it also, for example, in the case of the big tech companies...
They're spending a lot on AI.
They need to save money elsewhere.
And headcount is where they're looking.
And while over the last few years, while profits were booming and everything was going the right direction, they might have hired a bit loosely, if you like, and built up various roles.
They're now looking in particular, for example, at support roles to see where money can be saved.
And yeah, that is a...
that is an issue.
It is something that is very evident if you look at the Irish job figures.
So overall, they've been strong.
But there is that area of the tech sector where employment has eased off.
It's been a big growth contributor over the last few years.
And I suppose we'd hope that that's going to continue to be the case and this is kind of a readjustment.
But it is difficult and I guess from the point of view of the businesses themselves too, it's, you know, tricky enough in PR terms, you know, you're
you're highly profitable and you're laying off people so that you can be even more profitable.
It's not exactly an easy message to sell, but that's the way of the world with the multinationals.
Yeah, who knows?
I suppose the first thing to say is it's kind of evidence of the strength of the economy heading into this year before...
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