{"id":961103,"date":"2025-09-12T09:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961103"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:26:40","slug":"zupee-cuts-30-of-workforce-as-real-money-gaming-ban-bites-sets-up-rs-1-crore-support-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/12\/zupee-cuts-30-of-workforce-as-real-money-gaming-ban-bites-sets-up-rs-1-crore-support-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Zupee cuts 30% of workforce as real-money gaming ban bites; sets up Rs 1 crore support fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zupee on Thursday announced a layoff of 170 employees, representing 30 per cent of its total employee strength, and a strategic business realignment of operations in the face of a new regulation banning real-money online games. <\/p>\n<p>The restructuring comes in response to the recently enacted Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, and impacted employees will be given first priority for re-hiring as new roles become available, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zupee on Thursday announced a layoff of 170 employees, representing 30 per cent of its total employee strength, and a strategic business realignment of operations in the face of a new regulation banning real-money online games. The restructuring comes in response to the recently enacted Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, and impacted employees will be given first priority for re-hiring as new roles become available, the company said in a statement.<\/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-961103","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\/961103","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=961103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}