Reuters has reported that 5pc of jobs at the professional networking site, which employs over 2,000 people in Dublin, are at risk as part of a re-organisation at the firm
The subsidiary of Microsoft will move ahead with layoffs to reorganise teams and focus personnel on areas where its business is growing, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed sources associated with the move.
The job cuts are reportedly not linked to AI replacing jobs.
“As part of our regular business planning, we’ve implemented organisational changes to best position ourselves for future success,” a spokesperson for LinkedIn told the Irish Independent.
Separately, one source at the company told the Irish Independent that the figure of 5pc is incorrect. However, the source declined to expand on the company’s exact plans, or how they might affect the Irish operation.
The company’s potential cuts come as revenue at LinkedIn, which sells recruiting tools and subscriptions, rose 12pc in the just-ended quarter from a year prior, in an acceleration of growth in 2026, according to Microsoft’s securities filings.
The reported layoff plans come after widespread recent job-cutting activity across the tech industry at Coinbase, Meta, Amazon, Oracle, Covalen, PayPal and other multinationals based in Ireland.
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Most of the job cuts announced by tech giants here are related to AI replacing processes or roles within the companies, according to their senior executives.
LinkedIn opened a new 290,000 Emea headquarters in Wilton Park in Dublin 4 last year.
LinkedIn’s parent company, Microsoft, is currently offering a form of voluntary redundancy scheme to US staff. It shed around 250 Irish staff last year through a voluntary scheme.
Microsoft has three different operations in Ireland – Microsoft itself, with over 4,000 staff, and two wholly-owned subsidiaries, LinkedIn, with over 2,000 staff, and Activision Blizzard King, with around 250 staff.
Microsoft has been in Ireland for almost 41 years and, alongside Apple and Eli Lilly, is one of three multinational giants identified by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council as being responsible for 46pc (€13bn) of Ireland’s corporation tax take.
The Department of Enterprise said it received a notification of “proposed collective redundancies from LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company on 13 May 2026. Any further queries should be directed to the company”.
(Additional reporting by Reuters)
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This article was amended on May 12th, 2026, to reflect a source at Linkedin describing the reported layoffs figure of 5pc as incorrect.