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Zoho has announced a freeze on annual salary hikes for 2026, citing increased costs associated with artificial intelligence and a slowdown in the software market. Co-founder Sridhar Vembu urged employees to 'pray for us' as the company seeks to avoid mass layoffs.
This decision impacts Zoho's employees and reflects broader financial pressures faced by India's software industry amid rising AI costs.
Read from 9 reports across 5 independent newsrooms. Model gpt-4o-mini, 3d ago.
Importance weights independent corroboration far above article count. A wire story carried by fifty outlets is one story; four separate newsrooms each choosing to report something is a development.
The full evidence, oldest first. How each one joined is shown, so a wrong grouping is diagnosable rather than merely present.