{"id":619089,"date":"2023-03-17T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/assessing-the-impact-of-layoffs-on-africas-it-talent\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T19:06:14","slug":"assessing-the-impact-of-layoffs-on-africas-it-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/assessing-the-impact-of-layoffs-on-africas-it-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the impact of layoffs on Africa\u2019s IT talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While much of the news around tech layoffs has focused on US giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Meta and Twitter, dismissals are also happening closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>Since December, Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments business and one of Africa\u2019s few tech\u00a0unicorns, has laid off about 150 staff&#8230; Larisa Mayoral <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/463303\/understanding-tech-layoffs-in-the-african-context.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While much of the news around tech layoffs has focused on US giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Meta and Twitter, dismissals are also happening closer to home. Since December, Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments business and one of Africa\u2019s few tech\u00a0unicorns, has laid off about 150 staff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37060,29433],"tags":[8716,7879],"class_list":{"0":"post-619089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-assessing","8":"category-impact","9":"tag-assessing","10":"tag-impact"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}