{"id":153762,"date":"2025-11-26T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:22:07","slug":"hp-to-cut-up-to-6000-jobs-as-it-shifts-focus-to-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153762\/","title":{"rendered":"HP to cut up to 6000 jobs as it shifts focus to artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>25 Nov, 2025 11:07 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Tech giant HP expects to reduce its global headcount by between 4000 and 6000 employees to focus on adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Photo \/ Josh Edelson, AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Computer and printer maker HP has announced a sweeping restructuring plan that will eliminate about 10% of its workforce globally as the company pivots towards artificial intelligence to boost efficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         According to its latest earnings report, the tech giant expects to reduce its global headcount by between 4000 and 6000<br \/>\n         employees to focus on adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to increase innovation and customer satisfaction.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">HP\u2019s move reflects a broader trend across the tech sector, where companies are investing heavily in AI development while using the technology to reduce operational costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">Major tech firms including Google, Microsoft and Amazon have announced workforce reductions over the past two years, with many citing the need to reallocate resources, including jobs, towards AI initiatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">Industry analysts say AI automation is particularly affecting roles in customer support, content moderation, data entry and certain computer programming tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 25 Nov, 2025 11:07 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[65836,1443,696,9556,806,11231,138,1656,21136,3588,16232,98505,1958,11600,8337,9557,702,232,13106,111,139,69,102287,2170,102286,8190,84628,11987,1361,61,21419,810,1533,18370],"class_list":["post-153762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-65836","tag-about","tag-announced","tag-artificial","tag-as","tag-boost","tag-business","tag-company","tag-computer","tag-cut","tag-efficiency","tag-eliminate","tag-focus","tag-globally","tag-hp","tag-intelligence","tag-it","tag-jobs","tag-maker","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pivots","tag-plan","tag-printer","tag-restructuring","tag-shifts","tag-sweeping","tag-that","tag-to","tag-towards","tag-up","tag-will","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}