{"id":970228,"date":"2025-10-29T11:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970228"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:34:49","slug":"google-and-ai-are-to-blame-edutech-company-chegg-on-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/29\/google-and-ai-are-to-blame-edutech-company-chegg-on-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google and AI are to blame: Edutech company Chegg on cutting hundreds of jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Educational technology company Chegg has announced it will cut 388 roles globally. The company has blamed AI-powered tools and reduced traffic from Google for the latest round of layoffs, which accounts for about 45% of its workforce. In a statement to the news agency Reuters, Chegg, a company known for textbook rentals, homework help, and tutoring, said, \u201cThe new realities of AI and reduced traffic from Google to content publishers have led to a significant decline in Chegg&#8217;s traffic and revenue.\u201d The company also noted that job cuts are part of Chegg&#8217;s efforts to reduce costs and streamline operations as it adapts to the evolving educational technology landscape. This comes after Chegg sued Google over AI-generated summaries that impacted its website traffic earlier this year in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educational technology company Chegg has announced it will cut 388 roles globally. The company has blamed AI-powered tools and reduced traffic from Google for the latest round of layoffs, which accounts for about 45% of its workforce. In a statement to the news agency Reuters, Chegg, a company known for textbook rentals, homework help, and tutoring, said, \u201cThe new realities of AI and reduced traffic from Google to content publishers have led to a significant decline in Chegg&#8217;s traffic and revenue.\u201d The company also noted that job cuts are part of Chegg&#8217;s efforts to reduce costs and streamline operations as [&hellip;]<\/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-970228","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\/970228","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=970228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}