{"id":192845,"date":"2026-03-04T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/state-cancels-incentive-after-ai-related-hiring-shortfall\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:40:15","slug":"state-cancels-incentive-after-ai-related-hiring-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/state-cancels-incentive-after-ai-related-hiring-shortfall\/","title":{"rendered":"State Cancels Incentive After AI-Related Hiring Shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/state-cancels-incentive-after-ai-related-hiring-shortfall\">State Cancels Incentive After AI-Related Hiring Shortfall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/state-cancels-incentive-after-ai-related-hiring-shortfall\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/state-cancels-incentive-after-ai-related-hiring-shortfall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 17:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North Carolina cancelled a $1.3 million state grant to Morrisville software provider Relias due to a hiring shortfall, attributing it to the adoption of AI automation.<\/li>\n<li>Relias, which had created over 600 jobs locally under the grant, could not meet the 423 new positions required by 2024 due to increased use of generative AI.<\/li>\n<li>Relias&#8217;s vice president of human resources acknowledged AI as a tool to optimize work processes, leading to fewer hires in technology roles.<\/li>\n<li>The North Carolina Economic Investment Committee voted to cancel the grant in March 2025, despite Relias reporting a 62% increase in its U.S. workforce since 2016.<\/li>\n<li>The rise of advanced AI tools and increased remote work options, a trend influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, have impacted hiring across the Triangle tech region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Cancels Incentive After AI-Related Hiring Shortfall https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/state-cancels-incentive-after-ai-related-hiring-shortfall Publish Date: 2026-03-04 17:34:00 Source Domain: www.govtech.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/9ea56ba\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1040x506+0+61\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbd%2F32%2Fdd54db59d39c3bfe6223eaddbb72%2Fshutterstock-400106332.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-192845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192847,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192845\/revisions\/192847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}