{"id":69331,"date":"2025-06-30T09:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69331"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:23:28","slug":"tomtom-cuts-300-jobs-amid-shift-to-ai-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/30\/tomtom-cuts-300-jobs-amid-shift-to-ai-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"TomTom Cuts 300 Jobs Amid Shift to AI Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dutch navigation technology company TomTom has announced plans to cut approximately 300 jobs; about 10% of its global workforce, as it accelerates its transition towards artificial intelligence-driven operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company disclosed the move on Monday as part of a broader organizational realignment aimed at reducing financial losses and adapting to the growing role of AI in its business model.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, TomTom said the restructuring will primarily affect roles within the application layer, as well as sales and support functions.<\/p>\n<p>The company noted that these changes are necessary to better align with its AI-focused strategy and streamline operations.<\/p>\n<p>Once a pioneer in digital navigation, the Amsterdam-based firm has struggled in recent years with declining demand for standalone navigation devices, as in-built vehicle systems and smartphone apps have gained dominance.<\/p>\n<p>TomTom also revised its sales forecast downward, projecting a drop from \u20ac574 million ($674 million) in 2024 to between \u20ac505 million and \u20ac565 million this year.<\/p>\n<p>With the layoffs and restructuring, the company aims to enhance efficiency, boost innovation, and stay competitive in a fast-evolving technological landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Dutch navigation technology company TomTom has announced plans to cut approximately 300 jobs; about 10% of its global workforce, as it accelerates its transition towards artificial intelligence-driven operations. The company disclosed the move on Monday as part of a broader organizational realignment aimed at reducing financial losses and adapting to the growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69333,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69331\/revisions\/69333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}