TikTok announce job cuts. Photo Credit Flickr alpha photo
The government have been told to prepare for up to 300 redundancies.
The social media giant TikTok has announced major job cuts at their Dublin branch. The Chinese company have been implementing global job cuts, and last month the company told employees at the Dublin Branch that they too would be impacted by them.
The Department of Enterprise was sent a redundancy notification from TikTok. All companies who have a substantial number of employees must notify the department of any redundancies. TikTok has 3000 employees at their Dublin branch meaning nearly 10% might be affected by the job cuts, the Department for Enterprise said they had “received a collective redundancy notification in relation to potential redundancies at TikTok Technology Limited on 4 March 2025”
One of a series of job cuts to the Irish branch and worldwide
TikTok’s Irish contingent have suffered multiple cuts since January 2024, when it was announced that 20 jobs might be lost to restructuring.
This is the largest number of jobs lost yet at the Dublin-based operations where TikTok’s data security plan, Project Clover, is hosted. Project Clover manages data storage between TikTok branches in Dublin and Norway. Project Clover is a result of, over the next ten years “€12billion of investment in European data security from TikTok” according to the company.
In January 2025 teams across the globe, from the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa were subject to layoffs.
In October 2024 hundreds of TikTok employees from around the world were made redundant or laid off as it shifted toward AI for its content moderation.
TikTok is being scrutinised internationally for the way it exploits user data
The cuts have continued just over a month after TikTok went dark in the US for less than 24 hours, as tensions escalated over national security issues, caused by how much data TikTok takes from its users in the US. Many Big Tech companies are facing scrutiny in the US and globally for their methods of data collection and how they use that data to power their algorithms. The Information Commissioner’s Office or ICO in the UK has announced that they are going to investigate how the social media platform affects teens by using their data to promote content to them. They will check that TikTok’s gathered information on this age range is not in danger of being leaked and if the social media giant is on the right side of the UK’s data protection laws.#
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