The office market has been hit by tech layoffs, including at Meta, which has shifted its Dublin headquarters to Ballsbridge. Photograph: Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Bloomberg
Dublin’s “heavy reliance” on the international tech sector to drive demand for offices meant it was caught in the firing line last year as large-scale employers such as Meta, Amazon and Google trimmed their Irish headcounts, according to the report. ICT accounted for more than half of all office leasing from 2019 to 2021, but just 21.4 per cent in 2023, the report said.
While the downturn is not particularly deep by historical standards, BNP said the “real challenge is likely to be the slow rate at which this surplus space becomes reabsorbed” with remote working still very much a feature of working life in Dublin.