Microsoft has informed staff in Ireland of a further 60 job cuts on top of the 120 redundancies announced by the company last month.

The 180 job losses are part of a wider wave of 10,000 job cuts ordered by the company globally as it seeks to cut costs in response to slower growth.

Microsoft employs around 3,500 people in Ireland across operations, sales, engineering and product development.

Ireland acts as the company's EMEA hub across those business areas, and the cuts are being made by each division rather than by the group as a whole, explaining the staggered announcements.

At the time Microsoft announced it would cut 5% of its global workforce, CEO Satya Nadella said customers wanted to "optimise their digital spend to do more with less" and "exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one".

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The tech giant is one of several Silicon Valley businesses to significantly reduce their headcount in the past several months, alongside, Amazon, Google Meta, Stripe, Intel and more.