{"id":908187,"date":"2026-05-25T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/sama-to-lay-off-over-1100-workers-in-nairobi-after-meta-ends-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:13:53","slug":"sama-to-lay-off-over-1100-workers-in-nairobi-after-meta-ends-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/sama-to-lay-off-over-1100-workers-in-nairobi-after-meta-ends-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Sama to Lay Off Over 1,100 Workers in Nairobi After Meta Ends Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sama, a US and Nairobi-based data annotation firm Sama said on Thursday it will lay off more than 1,100 employees at its Nairobi office after a major client, Meta, ended a key contract, marking one of the largest job cuts in Kenya\u2019s growing artificial intelligence outsourcing sector&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techmoran.com\/2026\/04\/17\/sama-to-lay-off-over-1100-workers-in-nairobi-after-meta-ends-contract\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Sam Wakoba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sama, a US and Nairobi-based data annotation firm Sama said on Thursday it will lay off more than 1,100 employees at its Nairobi office after a major client, Meta, ended a key contract, marking one of the largest job cuts in Kenya\u2019s growing artificial intelligence outsourcing sector&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112125,192,198],"tags":[112124,5910],"class_list":["post-908187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nairobi","category-sports","category-workers","tag-nairobi","tag-workers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908187","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=908187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}