TikTok has warned of possible further job cuts at its Irish operation.
The impacted roles are within the company’s monetisation integrity team.
“As our business continues to grow and evolve, we’re undertaking a redesign of our monetisation integrity team that will enable us to further enhance our integrity assurance processes,” a TikTok spokesperson said.
“Regrettably, some roles may be redundant and our priority is supporting affected employees through this transition to minimise the impact of the changes,” the company said.
TikTok is continuing to hire at its Irish operation and it is understood that it may be possible for some of the affected staff to be redeployed to other divisions.
TikTok employs around 3,000 people in Ireland.
In February, it announced plans to restructure its training and quality division which affected hundreds of Irish-based roles.
At the time, the company said that many of those staff would be redeployed within the company.
In January, TikTok said that around 20 Irish-based jobs were at risk due to a restructuring of its small and medium business division.
The company’s Irish operation is playing a central role in its efforts to reassure European regulators that user data is secure.
“Project Clover” is TikTok’s data security plan and it involves the storage of European user information at data centres in Dublin and Norway.
The Chinese-owned video-sharing app has faced scrutiny over how much access China has to user data.
In April 2023, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued guidance advising Irish Government departments and state agencies against the use of the app on official devices.
The US and UK governments, as well as EU institutions, have also banned the platform on staff devices over cybersecurity fears.
TikTok has described the government bans as misguided and based on misconceptions.