{"id":1011059,"date":"2026-05-30T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011059"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:05:41","slug":"founder-of-chinas-amazon-jdcom-makes-a-promise-to-the-companys-900000-employees-on-ai-and-automation-says-will-not-lay-off-employees-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/founder-of-chinas-amazon-jdcom-makes-a-promise-to-the-companys-900000-employees-on-ai-and-automation-says-will-not-lay-off-employees-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of &#8216;China&#8217;s Amazon&#8217;, JDCom, makes a promise to the company&#8217;s 900,000 employees on AI and automation; says: Will not lay off employees who &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is the world&#8217;s largest e-commerce market and has been so for many years. One of the biggest players in China&#8217;s online shopping market is Chinese ecommerce giant JD.Com, also known as &#8216;China&#8217;s Amazon&#8217;. As AI layoffs sweep companies and countries, the founder of JD.com has made a pledge to the company&#8217;s 900,000 employees. JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vowed to prevent the e-commerce company&#8217;s 900,000-strong workforce from losing their jobs to automation at a recent town hall. As per a report in Bloomberg, the pledge sought to allay growing fears that the adoption of AI and robotics could replace workers. The report mentions a video circulating on social media that shows Liu addressing the company&#8217;s employees earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is the world&#8217;s largest e-commerce market and has been so for many years. One of the biggest players in China&#8217;s online shopping market is Chinese ecommerce giant JD.Com, also known as &#8216;China&#8217;s Amazon&#8217;. As AI layoffs sweep companies and countries, the founder of JD.com has made a pledge to the company&#8217;s 900,000 employees. JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vowed to prevent the e-commerce company&#8217;s 900,000-strong workforce from losing their jobs to automation at a recent town hall. As per a report in Bloomberg, the pledge sought to allay growing fears that the adoption of AI and robotics could replace workers. [&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-1011059","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\/1011059","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=1011059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011060,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011059\/revisions\/1011060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}