{"id":1043163,"date":"2026-10-14T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043163"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:34:31","slug":"zoho-freezes-raises-as-ai-costs-soar-founder-says-business-outlook-for-software-is-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/zoho-freezes-raises-as-ai-costs-soar-founder-says-business-outlook-for-software-is-uncertain\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoho freezes raises as AI costs soar, founder says &#8216;business outlook for software is uncertain&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho Corporation has frozen annual salary increases and cut marketing expenditure as rising artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure costs and an uncertain software market put pressure on the technology firm&#8217;s finances, founder Sridhar Vembu said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Vembu said the company had maintained its workforce at the same level for the past 18 months while trying to avoid mass layoffs, but warned that employment prospects across the software sector remained bleak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho Corporation has frozen annual salary increases and cut marketing expenditure as rising artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure costs and an uncertain software market put pressure on the technology firm&#8217;s finances, founder Sridhar Vembu said on Tuesday. Vembu said the company had maintained its workforce at the same level for the past 18 months while trying to avoid mass layoffs, but warned that employment prospects across the software sector remained bleak.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043163","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=1043163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043237,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043163\/revisions\/1043237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}