{"id":217664,"date":"2026-05-21T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/grads-get-rude-welcome-from-job-market-battered-by-ai-fueled-tech-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:10:09","slug":"grads-get-rude-welcome-from-job-market-battered-by-ai-fueled-tech-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/grads-get-rude-welcome-from-job-market-battered-by-ai-fueled-tech-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Grads Get Rude Welcome from Job Market Battered by AI-Fueled Tech Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/tech-layoffs-mount-as-grads-boo-the-ai-ified-job-market\/\">Grads Get Rude Welcome from Job Market Battered by AI-Fueled Tech Layoffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/tech-layoffs-mount-as-grads-boo-the-ai-ified-job-market\/\">https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/tech-layoffs-mount-as-grads-boo-the-ai-ified-job-market\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 00:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedailyupside.com\">www.thedailyupside.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Major tech companies, including Meta, Cisco, Microsoft, Block, Oracle, Amazon, and Coinbase, have laid off thousands of employees recently.<\/li>\n<li>Companies are shifting focus to AI-focused roles and reducing human workforce to fund AI development and achieve efficiencies.<\/li>\n<li>There is an AI-driven shift away from traditional office jobs, with specialized trades seeing significant wage growth.<\/li>\n<li>AI is expected to boost GDP growth, but at the cost of unemployment potentially rising.<\/li>\n<li>Graduates who can master AI are seeing higher salary demands, while there is growing preference for those with emotional intelligence and creativity.<\/li>\n<li>There is growing backlash against AI, as layoffs and increasing demand for AI training causes public sentiment to shift against it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grads Get Rude Welcome from Job Market Battered by AI-Fueled Tech Layoffs https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/tech-layoffs-mount-as-grads-boo-the-ai-ified-job-market\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sipaphotostwenty084094-scaled-e1779317406980.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217664"}],"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=217664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217666,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217664\/revisions\/217666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}