{"id":94460,"date":"2026-10-22T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/barclays-cutting-5000-jobs-as-it-increases-reliance-on-ai-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:43:55","slug":"barclays-cutting-5000-jobs-as-it-increases-reliance-on-ai-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/barclays-cutting-5000-jobs-as-it-increases-reliance-on-ai-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs as it increases reliance on AI | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barclays is cutting its staff by around 5,000 as it is increasing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>The banking group <!--more--> expects to close what amounts to 5% of its global workforce by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The bank&#8217;s cost reductions are focused on its UK retail bank, but some back office functions for the UK are done in India, where a significant proportion of the job cuts are expected to fall.<\/p>\n<p>Barclays said the changes were the result of an ongoing modernisation plan, with the use of AI being the &#8220;icing on the cake&#8221; of its strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features, visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Barclays #Banking #OnlineBanking #AI #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barclays is cutting its staff by around 5,000 as it is increasing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI). The banking group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}