- The CEO of Salesforce says that he no longer hires engineers, the recruitment of sales staff can be underway
- Human workers may have to share their work with AI agents
- The quarterly income has increased by 8% in annual shift, annual income up 9%
The CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, confirmed that the company would no longer hire engineers in 2025 due to the effects of artificial intelligence.
“We are not going to hire new engineers this year,” said Benioff during a recent call for results: “We find an increase in productivity of 30% in terms of engineering, and we will really continue to go up. And we will increase sales in a fairly spectacular way this year.”
The AI of the Salesforce agency has become so widespread that Benioff will thwart many studies suggesting that AI will not replace human workers. Instead, he plans a world where the two work hand in hand: “We are the latest generation of CEOs to manage only humans … You know, I think each CEO goes forward, you know, humans and agents together.”
Salesforce no longer needs engineers
This decision comes from a company that has invested massively in AI, not only to improve the efficiency of its customers with people like the AI agent, but also to improve the productivity of its own workers.
For the quarter ending on January 31, 2025, Salesforce declared a healthy increase of 8% in annual sliding of total income, up to $ 10.0 billion. Annual income is $ 37.9 billion, up 9% in annual shift.
Benioff commented: “No company is better positioned than Salesforce to direct customers thanks to the digital work revolution.”
The CEO has added that the delivery of the “digital work revolution” is the ambition of Salesforce: “Our objective is to be the n ° 1 supplier of digital work in the world.”
Indicative of the proliferation of agentic AI, Benioff provided an additional context when he surveyed on the analyst’s call: “I do not know any business that does not need automation for his humans … and I do not know any business that will not need an agentic layer.”
Already this calendar year, Salesforce informed his workforce of around 1,000 layoffs, but simultaneous hiring efforts would have been underway to recruit more sales staff.
