One month on from the introduction of GDPR Irish businesses report little change to operations

A survey commissioned by cloud company MicroWarehouse, carried out one month after the introduction of GDPR, reports most Irish companies say that they do not believe that it has not made any difference to their operations.

The survey found 90% of SME’s spent up to €5,000 to ensure compliance and 43% of larger companies spent upward of €20,000 to prepare for GDPR introduction.

While most SME’s did not enact any rigorous preparation model 20% of companies who employ 30 or more people went so far as employing someone to ensure they became GDPR compliant.

“As we all know, there was considerable pressure placed on businesses to become GDPR compliant by a strict deadline and as such, we were interested to see how it has impacted their business since that date,” said Aidan Finn, Technical Sales Lead at MicroWarehouse.

The survey was carried out through face to face interviews with 100 chief information officers and IT Leads in companies across Dublin.