Remote Work Reset - Ireland’s €10 Million Missed Opportunity

Episode notes

Six years on from the great work‑from‑home experiment, the conversation about remote work in Ireland has gone strangely quiet. Roughly 15% of Irish companies now hire fully remotely and 45% are hybrid, but the change is, in Tracy Keogh’s words: “stitchy, not systemic.” Headlines focus on big multinationals pulling people back to the office, while a whole category of globally distributed employers passes Ireland by. In this episode of The HRLocker Room, HRLocker’s CEO, Crystel Robbins Rynne, sits down with Tracy Keogh, Co‑founder of Grow Remote, to unpack where Ireland has actually landed on remote working, and what it would take to turn dispersed progress into a genuine national advantage. Grow Remote was founded pre‑pandemic to solve the practical problems of remote work and maximise its benefits for people, places and employers. Today it runs Europe’s largest training programmes for remote workers, managers and adopting organisations, and operates the world’s largest offline community of remote employees, with local meet‑ups across Ireland growing by 120%.

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