{"id":972102,"date":"2025-11-06T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972102"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:36:13","slug":"ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-workers-amid-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-workers-amid-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM to cut thousands of workers amid AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM said Tuesday that it planned to cut thousands of workers as it shifts its focus to higher-growth businesses in artificial intelligence consulting and software.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not specify how many workers would be affected, but said in a statement the layoffs would &#8220;impact a low single-digit percentage of our global workforce.&#8221; The company had 270,000 employees at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The number of workers in the United States is expected to remain flat despite some cuts, a spokesperson added in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM said Tuesday that it planned to cut thousands of workers as it shifts its focus to higher-growth businesses in artificial intelligence consulting and software. The company did not specify how many workers would be affected, but said in a statement the layoffs would &#8220;impact a low single-digit percentage of our global workforce.&#8221; The company had 270,000 employees at the end of last year. The number of workers in the United States is expected to remain flat despite some cuts, a spokesperson added in the 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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972102","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=972102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}