Salesforce said at least 20,000 workers changed roles. It cited an AI redesign.
At least 20,000 of Salesforce's more than 85,000 employees moved into "very different roles and jobs" over the past 18 months, chief operating and finance officer Robin Washington said. diginomica reported the remarks on 19…
At least 20,000 of Salesforce's more than 85,000 employees moved into "very different roles and jobs" over the past 18 months, chief operating and finance officer Robin Washington said. diginomica reported the remarks on 19 October from the International AI Summit in Ireland.
Washington tied the moves to Salesforce redesigning its own processes around AI agents, a programme it calls Customer Zero. In customer support, agents now take the first call and staff move to more proactive work, Washington said.
The figure is the company's own account from a stage. Washington gave no split by function or count of roles cut. Washington did not give a cost or say how many moves came from AI alone.
For anyone running a change programme, the missing numbers are what the moves cost and how long people took to settle into the new roles.
On the same panel, ServiceNow's chief operating officer Amit Zachery said: "I can't give them one-year plans." ServiceNow's budgets now change almost quarterly, Zachery added.
diginomica disclosed that Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow are premier partners of the publication.
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