{"id":153621,"date":"2026-06-27T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153621"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:00:09","slug":"as-chinas-tech-firms-adapt-to-ai-era-workers-worry-theyll-be-optimised-out-of-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153621","title":{"rendered":"As China\u2019s tech firms adapt to AI era, workers worry they\u2019ll be \u2018optimised\u2019 out of a job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen a friend checked in on a Meituan employee late last month to see if he had survived the latest round of corporate culling at the food delivery giant, he responded drily: \u201cI don\u2019t know whether it will be me next.\u201d<br \/>\nAnxieties were running high at the company then, after chat screenshots circulated on Chinese social media claiming Meituan planned to slash up to half of its product roles by the end of June, coupled with deep cuts to other departments.<br \/>\nWhile Meituan quickly denied the rumours,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3358519\/chinas-tech-firms-adapt-ai-era-workers-worry-theyll-be-optimised-out-job?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 PostWhen a friend checked in on a Meituan employee late last month to see if he had survived the latest round of corporate culling&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\/153621"}],"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=153621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}