Google has announced global jobs cuts in its recruitment teams.
It is not clear what impact the layoffs will have in Ireland but it is understood the cuts are being applied across several countries.
In February, Google cut 240 jobs from its Irish-based workforce as part of global layoffs.
The redundancies represented around 4% of Google's 5,500 Irish-based headcount.
In January, Google's parent Alphabet announced plans to cut around 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its global workforce.
Today, a Google spokesperson said that as the company continues to invest in top engineering and technical talent, it is meaningfully slowing the pace of overall hiring.
"In line with this, the volume of requests for our recruiters has gone down," the spokesperson said.
"In order to continue our important work to ensure we operate efficiently, we've made the hard decision to reduce the size of our recruiting team."
"We're supporting everyone impacted with a transition period, outplacement services, and severance as they look for new opportunities here at Google and beyond," the spokesperson added.
The Financial Services Union (FSU) expressed concern over possible additional redundancies at Google and called on the company to be transparent and open with staff.
"The Financial Services Union has had contact from union members working in recruitment services in Google about management arranging one to one meeting with staff members to inform them they are to be made redundant," said Gareth Murphy, Head of Industrial relations and campaigns with the FSU.
"It is vital that compulsory redundancies are avoided and a voluntary first approach is adopted," Mr Murphy said.
"Job security has become a big issue in the Technology sector and this announcement adds to the uncertainty that workers are experiencing," he added.
