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Unemployment sits at 4.9% and every published forecast puts it near 5% through 2027, so recruiting gets easier. Everything else gets harder. Drawing only on named sources — CSO, ESRI, Central Bank, CIPD Ireland, SOLAS — this report sets out what Irish employers with 250+ staff should plan for: a turning school pipeline, AI exposure concentrated in office and graduate roles, and a capability gap employers name themselves.

The spin studio at the Irish Life LifeFit Centre now runs the ICG Connect System, the interactive setup that links every bike in the room to a central screen. On Friday 18 July, our Wellbeing Coaches spent the morning training on it. Thirty minutes of education, a full spin class ridden as members, then a further thirty minutes working through the system in detail. Studio equipment at this level only earns its cost per head if the people teaching on it know it properly. That is the reason for...

The LifeFit Centre at Irish Life opened its doors on 18 May. The Strong class started shortly after, on Tuesday evenings. Three months on, the workplace strength class is close to full most weeks, and it is largely the same people in the room. What follows is a look at what has happened there since May, and at what the group have built between them. What a workplace strength class asks of a coach The people in the Strong class did not arrive with the same experience. Some had trained before....