{"id":1043097,"date":"2026-10-14T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043097"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:32:49","slug":"zoho-freezes-salary-hikes-as-ai-costs-rise-vembu-flags-uncertain-software-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/zoho-freezes-salary-hikes-as-ai-costs-rise-vembu-flags-uncertain-software-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoho freezes salary hikes as AI costs rise, Vembu flags \u2018uncertain\u2019 software outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho has frozen annual salary hikes for all its employees in 2026 as rising artificial intelligence (AI) costs and an uncertain outlook for the software industry put pressure on the company\u2019s spending. <\/p>\n<p>Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and chief scientist of Zoho, said the company is trying to avoid mass layoffs but has already cut its marketing budget to control expenses. The company is facing higher costs as the use of AI grows and demand for computing power increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho has frozen annual salary hikes for all its employees in 2026 as rising artificial intelligence (AI) costs and an uncertain outlook for the software industry put pressure on the company\u2019s spending. Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and chief scientist of Zoho, said the company is trying to avoid mass layoffs but has already cut its marketing budget to control expenses. The company is facing higher costs as the use of AI grows and demand for computing power increases.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043097","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=1043097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043110,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043097\/revisions\/1043110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}