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December 24, 2025

‘Failure is too expensive’: Should it be easier to fire tech talent in Europe?

The high cost of sacking people is the root cause of the innovation gap with the US

Éanna Kelly

4 min read

Labour laws devised over a century ago are killing European innovation. 

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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