The past week saw the CSO publish the Labour Force Survey results for the opening quarter of 2023.
Thus, both labour force and employment growth gained considerable momentum in the first quarter of the year, though we would not extrapolate this trend out for the rest of 2023, given the volatility of quarterly data.
Employment has increased by almost 275,000, or 11.5%, since the end of 2019, despite the numerous challenges faced by the Irish economy over this period.
The CSO data were released the same day that Meta announced a further 490 jobs were to go at its Irish operations, on top of the 320 redundancies last November.
