{"id":996837,"date":"2026-03-07T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996837"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:44:39","slug":"ai-taking-jobs-whoop-ceo-will-ahmed-says-companies-are-using-ai-as-a-convenient-excuse-for-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/ai-taking-jobs-whoop-ceo-will-ahmed-says-companies-are-using-ai-as-a-convenient-excuse-for-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"AI taking jobs? Whoop CEO Will Ahmed says companies are using AI as a convenient excuse for layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is becoming a major focus for companies across the world. Many businesses and companies say they are investing heavily in AI, and at the same time several companies have also announced layoffs. This has created a belief that AI is replacing human jobs. However, Will Ahmed, CEO of Whoop, believes the situation may not be as simple as it seems. <\/p>\n<p>Will Ahmed recently said that some companies are using AI as a convenient excuse to explain layoffs, even when the real reasons could be weak business performance or changes in strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is becoming a major focus for companies across the world. Many businesses and companies say they are investing heavily in AI, and at the same time several companies have also announced layoffs. This has created a belief that AI is replacing human jobs. However, Will Ahmed, CEO of Whoop, believes the situation may not be as simple as it seems. Will Ahmed recently said that some companies are using AI as a convenient excuse to explain layoffs, even when the real reasons could be weak business performance or changes in strategy.<\/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-996837","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\/996837","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=996837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}