{"id":322858,"date":"2026-03-01T04:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T04:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:02:13","slug":"are-ai-layoffs-in-u-s-a-wake-up-call-for-the-canadian-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322858\/","title":{"rendered":"Are AI layoffs in U.S. a wake-up call for the Canadian workforce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Canada\u2019s economic output shrank in the fourth quarter, marking the slowest pace of annual growth in a decade, outside of the pandemic. But overall, spending was up, which bodes well for the economy in the months ahead. This data comes amid a major U.S. tech firm&#8217;s announcement of thousands of layoffs. The company plans to replace workers with artificial intelligence (AI). Heather Yourex-West looks at whether it\u2019s a sign of changes to come for the Canadian workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s economic output shrank in the fourth quarter, marking the slowest pace of annual growth in a decade,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[95812,72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-322858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-annual-growth","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}