{"id":1027521,"date":"2026-08-08T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027521"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:39:30","slug":"europes-largest-technology-company-sap-stops-all-travel-and-hiring-tells-employees-we-need-to-be-disciplined-in-how-we-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/europes-largest-technology-company-sap-stops-all-travel-and-hiring-tells-employees-we-need-to-be-disciplined-in-how-we-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s largest technology company SAP stops all travel and hiring; tells employees: We need to be disciplined in how we spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAP has paused most travel and hiring. Europe&#8217;s largest technology company has introduced the measures as it increases investment in artificial intelligence (AI), telling employees it needs to &#8220;be disciplined in how we spend.&#8221; According to an internal email obtained by 404 Media, only AI-related hiring, customer-facing travel and trips linked to AI development or critical AI training are exempt from the restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions remain in place, according to a current SAP employee cited by 404 Media, which first obtained the internal email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAP has paused most travel and hiring. Europe&#8217;s largest technology company has introduced the measures as it increases investment in artificial intelligence (AI), telling employees it needs to &#8220;be disciplined in how we spend.&#8221; According to an internal email obtained by 404 Media, only AI-related hiring, customer-facing travel and trips linked to AI development or critical AI training are exempt from the restrictions. The restrictions remain in place, according to a current SAP employee cited by 404 Media, which first obtained the internal email.<\/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-1027521","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\/1027521","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=1027521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027522,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027521\/revisions\/1027522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}