{"id":188638,"date":"2025-11-19T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188638\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:31:22","slug":"the-theory-has-been-tested-scurri-boss-backs-return-to-office-as-e16-5bn-firm-ramps-up-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188638\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The theory has been tested\u2019 \u2013 Scurri boss backs return to office as \u20ac16.5bn firm ramps up growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Wexford tech CEO Rory O\u2019Connor says productivity is stronger in person as the company targets \u20ac20bn in online sales and 200m shipments\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory O\u2019Connor, founder and chief executive of Scurri. Photo: Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5616762d-f842-4372-a385-fd9da6a1216b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rory O\u2019Connor, founder and chief executive of Scurri. Photo: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The founder and CEO of Scurri \u2014 the Wexford tech company that processed \u20ac16.5bn in sales last year \u2014 has weighed in on the working-from-home debate, saying: \u201cI think the theory has been tested,\u201d as the business continues its rapid expansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Scurri also handled 154 million shipments in 2024, up from 115 million the previous year, and is now targeting \u20ac20bn in gross merchandise value and 200 million shipments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford tech CEO Rory O\u2019Connor says productivity is stronger in person as the company targets \u20ac20bn in online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,4247,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-188638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cillian-boggan","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115575435006180493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}