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Workvivo to add 100 jobs as it opens Cork hub

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The new location will feature five dedicated rooms for hybrid meetings, as well as forty work points for staff. The hub also includes three zones to support different working styles.

The project was supported by the Irish Government on behalf of IDA Ireland.

The employee engagement software firm also reported that it plans to add 100 new jobs in Ireland.

These roles will be filled over the next two years and will include product and engineering positions, with a focus on research and innovation.

“It was so important to us that our new engagement hub would stay true to our DNA, while also setting us up for the next phase in our scaling journey as part of Zoom,” chief executive and co-founder John Goulding said.

“The employee experience market is growing and evolving quickly and we have ambitious plans to grow and expand our product to create new features that help our customers to improve employee engagement, culture, and communications,” he added.

IDA Ireland executive director Mary Buckley said that Zoom’s decision to establish its first major hub in Cork is positive news for the Southwest region of the country.

“Zoom is attracted by the wealth of skilled and diverse talent across the region to support their research and innovation focus,” Ms Buckley said.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Peter Burke added that the acquisition by Zoom last year has allowed the Cork business to “significantly grow their innovative employee engagement platform, while keeping true to their own identity.”

“The creation of 100 jobs in the city is very welcome and will provide exciting opportunities for our skilled tech workforce,” Mr Burke said.

Workvivo was founded in Cork in 2017. It offers employee communications, intranet and measurement services on one platform.

The company now works with a number of large global businesses such as Ryanair, Amazon and the Virgin Group and employed around 133 people last year.

Prior to the Zoom deal, it raised €36m in two separate venture capital rounds, in 2020 and 2022.

Earlier this year, Workvivo was named as the preferred migration partner by tech giant Meta following the retirement of its own employee communications platform which was known as Workplace.

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