{"id":293084,"date":"2026-02-20T07:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293084\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:47:14","slug":"sabre-lays-off-staff-amid-c-suite-reshuffle-in-bid-to-become-ai-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293084\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabre Lays Off Staff Amid C-Suite Reshuffle in Bid to Become &#8216;AI-Native&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sabre is cutting jobs, reshuffling its C-suite, and investing $65 million to transform itself into what CEO Kurt Ekert calls &#8216;an AI-native technology company&#8217; through AI adoption and offshore labor.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs are already under way.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Sabre employees began posting on LinkedIn about losing their jobs, with reports surfacing from the UK and as far away as South America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today was a difficult day for many at Sabre,&#8221; wrote a technical manager in a\u00a0LinkedIn post, expressing support for affected colleagues. &#8220;Beyond the announcements and numbers, what truly matters are the people.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other messages offered recommendations for severed coworkers, made networking requests from accounts newly featuring \u201copen-to-work\u201d status or looked back on their years at the company.<\/p>\n<p>The move seems to have taken Giovanni Tavaniello, a project services employee at Sabre in Montevideo, Uruguay, by surprise: \u201cMi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabre is cutting jobs, reshuffling its C-suite, and investing $65 million to transform itself into what CEO Kurt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,4858,111,139,69,55242,145,78139,94064],"class_list":{"0":"post-293084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-layoffs","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-sabre","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-the-prompt","18":"tag-travel-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293084","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=293084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}