GM, with offices in Dublin and Limerick, is cutting up to 600 jobs globally.

Coding platform GitLab is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs, with further plans to reduce its global operational footprint by up to 30pc.

“This is not an AI optimisation or cost cutting exercise”, said company CEO Bill Stapes. “Operationally, we grew into a shape that was right for the last era and isn’t right for this one,” he added.

According to the company, the restructuring will remove management layers, help reorganise R&D into around 60 small teams and rewire internal processes with AI. The company anticipates cutting its global footprint only in regions it has a “handful of people or fewer”.

The new corporate structure will be revealed by 1 June, while the final scope and financial impact will be shared on the 2 June earnings call, it said.

Currently, the company employs more than 2,500 people across more than 65 countries on a fully remote basis. SiliconRepublic.com has reached GitLab for information on the impact of the layoffs on Ireland-based employees.

Like its much bigger contemporaries, GitLab is integrating AI into code planning, drafting, review, deployment and repair. Human employees, meanwhile, will provide oversight with architecture and directional support, it said.

The latest cuts come after GitLab laid off around 130 workers in 2023 to “withstand the growing global economic downturn”.

The coding platform is only the latest to join a growing list of well-performing tech companies laying off human workers in response to the rising popularity of AI tools at the workplace.

In recent times, Cloudflare cut 20pc its workforce; Coinbase cut 14pc; Meta, about 8,000 jobs; Block, 4,000 jobs; Oracle, about 10,000; Amazon, 30,000; Atlassian, 10pc of its workforce; and Snap, about 16pc – with the trend largely attributed to changing technology at the workplace.

GM to cut up to 600 jobs

General Motors (GM) has begun cutting around 500 to 600 salaried IT employees, sources told Bloomberg news yesterday (11 May).

According to the company, the reductions are to transform its IT department to better position the company for the future. Bloomberg reported that GM has already been making changes to its IT section by integrating more computing and software capabilities to its cars and using AI in its operations.

GM has two ‘Global Information Technology’ sites in Dublin and Limerick. SiliconRepublic.com has queried the company for information on the impact of the layoffs on Ireland-based employees.

The latest layoffs come months after the automaker laid off more than 200 US jobs last October. In the same month, GM notified around 5,500 employees – also in the US – that it was temporarily cutting their jobs, following president Donald Trump’s changes to electric vehicle taxation policies.

In February, GM reportedly cut more than 1,000 jobs at its autonomous vehicle company Cruise after it scrapped plans to fund robotaxi projects. Prior to this, it announced plans to cut 1,000 jobs in 2024.

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