Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced that the company is contemplating a freeze on new software engineering hires due to significant productivity improvements realized from AI agents. During an interview on 'The Logan Bartlett Show', Benioff highlighted that the efficiency gains may negate the need to onboard new staff this year. He also addressed the broader context of global labor shortages, emphasizing that AI adoption could help reshape the workforce for the future as traditional labor markets face challenges, such as declining birth rates.
In engineering this year at Salesforce, we're seriously debating - maybe we aren't going to hire anybody this year.
We have seen such incredible productivity gains because of the agents that work side by side with our engineers.
AI agents will give businesses the ability to do more, providing the example of engineering.
There's no question the world is changing, when it gets down to labor and delivering the next generation of labor.
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