Type
Business expansion
Country
Ireland
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Health / Social Work
Human Health Services And Activities
Human Health Activities
86.9 - Other human health activities

160 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
1 December 2020
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

Private at-home health testing company LetsGetChecked is to create 160 jobs in Dublin where it is establishing the company’s first lab in Europe. The jobs include developers, engineers, laboratory roles, marketing, customer solutions and sales.

The company provides sexual health tests, men and women’s health and diagnostics for vitamin levels, thyroid function and cortisol levels.

It has been offering coronavirus tests to frontline workers in the US since May, and has shipped more than one million coronavirus tests since the beginning of the pandemic. The company announced recently that it would be making Covid-19 tests available to Irish customers.


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2020), LetsGetChecked, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 102734, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102734.