{"id":359589,"date":"2026-02-27T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/359589\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:48:09","slug":"financial-services-company-block-to-lay-off-almost-half-its-staff-and-replace-them-with-ai-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/359589\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial services company Block to lay off almost half its staff and replace them with AI – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Financial services company Block to lay off almost half its staff and replace them with AI<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts thousands of jobs as it embraces AI<\/a>  BBC<\/li>\n
  3. Block shares soar as much as 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half<\/a>  CNBC<\/li>\n
  4. Jack Dorsey\u2019s Block cuts 4,000 jobs, citing AI as the reason<\/a>  Silicon Republic<\/li>\n
  5. Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000, says others will do same ‘within the next year’<\/a>  SFGATE<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Financial services company Block to lay off almost half its staff and replace them with AI  The Journal Jack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[67993,79,52,18,19,17,167384],"class_list":["post-359589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-block","tag-business","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-dorsey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}