IKEA Group, the owner of most IKEA furniture stores worldwide, plans to cut 7,500 jobs over the next couple of years, mainly administrative staff in central support functions.
But IKEA's Ireland Market Manager Claudia Marshall said the impact of the cuts on its Irish business will be "minimal".
"At this stage we anticipate that over the next two years, potentially less than 20 jobs out of the 730 in Ireland may be made redundant," Ms Marshall said.
"We will work closely with all our co-workers to support them during this period of change," she added.
At the same time, the group, which owns 367 IKEA stores, estimates it will create 11,500 new jobs over the next couple of years.
The company said it plans to expand with new store formats and online, grow its service offering and invest in digital capabilities.
IKEA is in a period of transformation where it is boosting its digital, delivery and other services and testing new more accessible store formats in a fast-changing retail and consumer landscape.
The expected redundancies amount to almost 5% of the company's current workforce.
"We need to simplify the way we are organised. Over the last years we have invested in resources in many different ways.
"To be honest, now we see that in several parts of our organisation we have a bit of duplicate work," the company's chief executive Jesper Brodin told Reuters.
He said expected redundancies were related to central functions and global service offices in particular, but also local service offices across markets.
"This is not geared towards the store operation or distribution units", Mr Brodin added.
350 of IKEA's employees in the UK are facing redundancy as part of its new plan.
