Researchers at the CSIRO’s Data61 business unit are bracing for job losses and research roll-backs as a funding crunch claims dozens of roles elsewhere at the agency and ends its clinical trial services altogether.
According to its union, almost 100 jobs could go at Data61, the CSIRO’s digital research arm established in 2016.
The CSIRO insists no decision has been taken on Data61 redundancies, but it won’t rule them out while trying to reduce labour and operating costs across the science agency’s enterprise support services function by 25 per cent.
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