{"id":1010317,"date":"2026-05-27T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010317"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:10:18","slug":"after-cutting-22-workforce-ceo-of-american-startup-says-top-ai-talent-may-earn-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/after-cutting-22-workforce-ceo-of-american-startup-says-top-ai-talent-may-earn-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"After cutting 22% workforce, CEO of American startup says top AI talent may earn $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud-based productivity firm ClickUp has reduced its workforce by 22%, with founder and CEO Zeb Evans saying the company is restructuring around artificial intelligence and new ways of working. In an over 1000-worded post shared on X, Evans said the decision was not made because of financial pressure, adding that the business is currently \u201cthe strongest it&#8217;s ever been.\u201d He stated that the company plans to introduce salary bands of up to $1 million a year for employees who create what he called \u201coutsized impact\u201d using AI systems.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, Evans said he personally made the decision to cut jobs and described it as part of a broader shift in how companies operate with AI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud-based productivity firm ClickUp has reduced its workforce by 22%, with founder and CEO Zeb Evans saying the company is restructuring around artificial intelligence and new ways of working. In an over 1000-worded post shared on X, Evans said the decision was not made because of financial pressure, adding that the business is currently \u201cthe strongest it&#8217;s ever been.\u201d He stated that the company plans to introduce salary bands of up to $1 million a year for employees who create what he called \u201coutsized impact\u201d using AI systems. In the post, Evans said he personally made the decision to cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010318,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010317\/revisions\/1010318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}