{"id":1013399,"date":"2026-06-10T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013399"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:46:22","slug":"paytm-plans-10-staff-increase-in-ai-pivot-to-lay-off-400-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/10\/paytm-plans-10-staff-increase-in-ai-pivot-to-lay-off-400-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paytm plans 10% staff increase in AI pivot, to lay off 400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech pioneer Paytm is set to hire about 4,000 people over the next nine months, part of a pivot aimed at expanding its merchant network and artificial intelligence-driven product offerings. <\/p>\n<p>The increase would mark a roughly 10% increase in its headcount that stands at about 40,000 employees. Paytm is also laying off 1% of its staff, or about 400 people, after the current performance appraisal cycle, a company spokesperson said. The cuts follow more substantial reductions in the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fintech pioneer Paytm is set to hire about 4,000 people over the next nine months, part of a pivot aimed at expanding its merchant network and artificial intelligence-driven product offerings. The increase would mark a roughly 10% increase in its headcount that stands at about 40,000 employees. Paytm is also laying off 1% of its staff, or about 400 people, after the current performance appraisal cycle, a company spokesperson said. The cuts follow more substantial reductions in the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013399","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013432,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013399\/revisions\/1013432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}