{"id":139503,"date":"2025-10-31T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139503"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:00:14","slug":"us-software-firm-sas-exits-china-after-25-years-lays-off-about-400-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139503","title":{"rendered":"US software firm SAS exits China after 25 years, lays off about 400 staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostUS software company SAS Institute has withdrawn from mainland China and dismissed its local staff, according to a Beijing-based employee affected by the move, as the analytics specialist ended more than two decades of operations amid intense domestic competition and geopolitical tensions.<br \/>\nThe company on Thursday announced the lay-offs via an email and hosted a short video call, in which executives thanked local employees for their contribution and cited \u201corganisational optimisation\u201d for the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3331099\/us-software-firm-sas-exits-china-after-25-years-lays-about-400-staff?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostUS software company SAS Institute has withdrawn from mainland China and dismissed its local staff, according to a Beijing-based employee affected by the move,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}