{"id":972910,"date":"2025-11-10T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972910"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:01:15","slug":"indian-developer-says-company-made-staff-pay-for-ai-tools-refused-reimbursement-expose-them-netizens-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/10\/indian-developer-says-company-made-staff-pay-for-ai-tools-refused-reimbursement-expose-them-netizens-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian developer says company made staff pay for AI tools, refused reimbursement; &#8216;Expose them,&#8217; netizens say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Software Development Engineer (SDE) has drawn attention on social media after sharing their experience of working for a company that required employees to pay for artificial intelligence (AI) tools for office work without reimbursement. In a now-viral Reddit post titled \u201cFeeling the burn of AI in a weird way at my workplace\u201d, the employee questioned whether the company\u2019s actions amounted to \u201cemployee extortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What happened at the workplace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Software Development Engineer (SDE) has drawn attention on social media after sharing their experience of working for a company that required employees to pay for artificial intelligence (AI) tools for office work without reimbursement. In a now-viral Reddit post titled \u201cFeeling the burn of AI in a weird way at my workplace\u201d, the employee questioned whether the company\u2019s actions amounted to \u201cemployee extortion.\u201d What happened at the workplace?<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972910","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=972910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}