Salesforce CEO Claims Half of the Company’s Work Is Now Done by AI

While many companies that have done everything on AI since fired backSalesforce goes from steam. In a Interview with BloombergCEO Marc Benioff said that up to 30% to 50% of the company’s work is now completed by AI, although no word from its role has been reported or what part of its $ 39.6 million in compensation it will abandon.

“We must all understand this idea that AI could do things that before, we did, and we can move on to higher value work,” said Benioff. In the case of some Salesforce employees, all the work “goes to higher work” will have to occur elsewhere. Earlier this year, the company announcement that he made 1,000 people dismiss. He too would have plans to hire 1,000 other people who will focus on the sale of the company’s own AI agent technology, Agentforce. In other words, SalesForce hires real people to sell other companies on the adoption of AI to replace part of its human workforce, which certainly seems to be one of the ten wounds of capitalism at an advanced stage.

Benioff and Salesforce are far from being the only company that reports that they will put pressure for the AI ​​revolution, whether ready or not. Earlier this month, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a letter to the employees talk about the use of generative AI Through the company’s workflows, while sliding in a small note on how AI will lead to Amazon who needs “fewer people who do work that is done today”.

This seems to be the underlying message of a large part of the embrace of the technology AI: prepare for layoffs. The Silicon Valley has gone to boast of the number of jobs it can create to boast of the small size of its workforce.

Microsoft is in the middle of a second cycle of layoffs, per fast companyAfter Already reducing their staff by 6,000 In May and move a lot of money into AI investments. Other companies like Google And Buzz have also reduced people from the departments within their companies. According to Dismissals.FyiUntil now, the technological industry has dismissed more than 63,000 workers in 2025.

Often, whether or not, the adoption of AI companies is the underlying reason for the cuts. Brian Merchant, author of Blood in the machine: the origins of the rebellion against Big Techrecently spoke with technological workers who have been affected by AI And found that technology reshaves jobs and workforce as a whole. A Crowdsstrike employee told Mercitus that if the company has positioned its recent layoff as a reduction in underperforming employees, many of them were new hires that the company decided was replaceable. “The AI ​​has literally killed many jobs at Crowstrike this week.” Another Dropbox said that their team, which focused on improving the reliability of the service, was released in favor of promoting a new tool fueled by AI.