{"id":1013545,"date":"2026-06-10T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013545"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:09:19","slug":"paytm-to-hire-4000-employees-by-march-2027-despite-fresh-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/10\/paytm-to-hire-4000-employees-by-march-2027-despite-fresh-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Paytm to hire 4,000 employees by March 2027 despite fresh layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian 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.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013545","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=1013545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013547,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013545\/revisions\/1013547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}