Type
Business expansion
Country
Ireland
Region
Southern and Eastern; Dublin;
Location of affected unit(s)
Dublin
Sector
Information / Communication
Information Service Activities
Information Service Activities
63.9 - Other information service activities

1,000 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
10 June 2022
Employment effect (start)
10 June 2022
Foreseen end date

Description

Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok is to create 1,000 jobs in Ireland. The company has been operating in Ireland since 2019 and the new roles will add to the 2,000 staff already employed here. Recruitment will start soon. Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar welcomed the news. The latest jobs announcement follows agreement reached by the company in recent months to rent two new sites in Dublin. 

Tik Tok recently announced it would be opening a European data centre in Dublin next year.


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2022), TikTok, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107018, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107018.