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Ireland’s biggest digital conference for SMEs to take place in Cork on April 7th

January 29th 2016

Today it has been announced that Ireland’s biggest digital conference for SMEs will take place at City Hall, Cork on April 7, 2016. The aim of the conference is to provide small and medium business owners and employees with the knowledge to drive their business forward, through the delivery of real and relevant information from […]

Ireland signs up to tackle tax avoidance by multinationals with 30 other OECD countries

January 28th 2016

Ireland is among 31 OECD countries that have signed up to the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement designed to tackle tax avoidance and evasion by multinationals. The move follows concerns about how some multinationals move their profits to countries with lower corporation tax rates. It means these multinationals must now pay tax in the country where […]

Dublin chosen to launch major EU start-up initiative

January 27th 2016

Dublin has been chosen to launch Start-up Europe Week at the beginning of February, with a DCU event to be live streamed to the European Commission (EC) to kick off five days of talks that will be simultaneously held across 28 countries. Aimed at helping start-ups negotiate the regulatory bureaucracy of the EU, the EC […]

Many Irish believe openness about mental health is bad for job prospects

January 26th 2016

Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity, Professor Mark Bell has today claimed that one quarter of us will develop mental or behavioural disorders during our lifetime and for many this can lead to job loss. Furthermore, almost six out of ten people believe that openness about mental health impacts negatively on job prospects. This comes […]

More men than women own pensions

January 25th 2016

New research released by Standard Life indicates that 70% of adults over 55 years of age own a pension. Of this, more men than women own pensions – with 55% of men compared with 46% of women. The survey of 1,000 respondents reveals that pension ownership has increased sharply from 40% in March 2011 to […]

Poor employee health costs Irish economy €2.4 billion per year

January 22nd 2016

According to new research, poor employee health is one of the most persistent problems effecting productivity, profitability and competitiveness for Irish organisations. A corporate health service provider, Fusion HR has analysed the health risk factors identified by just under 600 Irish employees through its Health House wellness portal to estimate the cost of poor employee […]

One in five private sector jobs are as a result of foreign investment

January 21st 2016

The IDA have today released figures which show that more than one-in-five private sector jobs in the economy (direct and indirect employment), are as a result of IDA-supported Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Almost 19,000 jobs were created last year by IDA client companies in regions all over Ireland, with over 9,000 jobs created outside Dublin. […]

Ireland’s economy is three times than the EU average in terms of GDP growth

January 20th 2016

The latest PwC’s Annual Global CEO survey has been released today and shows that two-thirds of CEOs (66%) see more threats facing their businesses today than three years ago. Just over a quarter (27%) believe global growth will improve over the next 12 months, a decline of 10 points on last year. More than 1,400 […]

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