Artificial Intelligence has reportedly cut 4,000 jobs at one of San Francisco's largest private employers.

In a recent interview on The Logan Barlett Show podcast, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spoke about the shift.

He says Salesforce has halved its customer support roles from 9,000 to 5,000.

"I was able to rebalance my headcount on my support. I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need less heads," Benioff said.

He said he found customer service success at Salesforce using AI.

"So we have now done about a million-and-a-half conversations with customers, and at the same time, that's the agentic layer speaking to the customers. A million-and-a-half conversations also happen through our support agents during that same period, and the CSAT scores were about the same, w

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