- Salesforce CEO says it is not hiring more engineers, the recruitment of sales personnel can be ongoing
- Human workers could have to share their work with AI agents
- Quarterly income increases 8% year -on -year, annual income increased by 9%
The CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, has confirmed that the company would not hire more engineers in 2025 due to the effects of artificial intelligence.
“We are not going to hire new engineers this year,” Benioff said in a recent gain call, “we are seeing a 30% increase in engineering productivity, and we are really going to continue moving. And we will increase sales quite dramatically this year.”
The Salesforce agent has been generalized for Benioff to counteract many studies that suggest that AI will not replace human workers. Instead, imagine a world in which the two work hand in hand: “We are CEO’s latest generation to manage only humans … You know, I think every CEO in the future will handle, you know, humans and agents together.”
Salesforce does not need more engineers
The measure comes from a company that has invested a lot in AI, not only to improve the efficiency of its customers with AI Agentic, but also to improve the productivity of its own workers.
For the quarter that ends on January 31, 2025, Salesforce reported a healthy 8% year after year in total revenues, up to $ 10.0 billion. The income of the whole year stood at $ 37.9 billion, 9% more year after year.
Benioff commented: “No company is better positioned than Salesforce to take customers through the digital labor revolution.”
The CEO added that delivering the “Digital Labor Revolution” is Salesforce’s ambition: “Our goal is to be the number 1 supplier of digital labor in the world.”
Indicative of the proliferation of the AFFECT, Benioff provided an additional context when it was tested in the call of the analyst: “I do not know any company that does not need automation for its humans … and I do not know any company that does not need an agent layer.”
Already this calendar year, Salesforce has notified its workforce of around 1,000 dismissals, however, simultaneous hiring efforts have been in progress to recruit more sales personnel.
