{"id":724979,"date":"2026-06-09T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724979\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:52:15","slug":"canvas-cliff-obrecht-says-it-will-slow-recruitment-as-it-pivots-toward-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724979\/","title":{"rendered":"Canva\u2019s Cliff Obrecht says it will slow recruitment as it pivots toward artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s largest technology company, Canva, will stop hiring for some advertised jobs and reconsider other roles, as it grapples with what the future of work looks like as artificial intelligence becomes more entrenched.<\/p>\n<p>According to a \u201cmusings\u201d document circulated to staff late last week, Canva\u2019s headcount has grown by more than 7 per cent this year and the company wants to slow hiring to keep this growth rate below 10 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s largest technology company, Canva, will stop hiring for some advertised jobs and reconsider other roles, as it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-724979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}