Employment in tech drops again during September
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The number of people working in information and communications, which is dominated by the tech sector, dropped again in September as the overall number of people employed across the country remained largely flat.
According to data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), there were just under 2.43m people employed during the month — an increase of approximately 400 from August.
Across all sectors of the economy, eight added jobs during September with the largest increases seen in the public administration and defence sector, up 1.7%, and a 0.5% increase in the transportation and storage sector.
Employment in tourism activities also increased by 0.6% to 217,500.
The construction sector saw the biggest decrease month-on-month, down 0.6%.
While the information and communication sector was down 0.3% month-on-month to 121,500, compared to September 2022, there are 2.7% fewer people employed — the largest annual decrease in any sector.
There has been a steady decrease in employment in this sector since May.
An additional four sectors recorded decreases in employment in September compared to August.
This comes as the European Commission predicts that Ireland’s economy will contract by 0.9% this year as the changing fortunes of some of the many multinationals based here weigh on exports and output.
In addition, the CSO also released tourism figures which showed that 582,100 foreign visitors arrived and departed Ireland during September.
The visitors stayed a total of 4,649,800 nights in the country spending an estimated €800.1m during their trip.
Of the 582,100 foreign visitors, 35.4% were from Great Britain, 20.2% were from the United States, and 8.0% were from Germany.