Artificial Intelligence May Reduce Workforces by up to 50%

You can go back to my newsletters and blogs over the past year, but I have repeated opinioned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is allowing corporations to do more work with less employees. I haven’t seen any documented studies yet, but asreported in Techspot June 27, 2025, “Salesforce CEO says 50% of company work is now done by AI”.  “Speaking in an interview on Bloomberg’s The Circuit with Emily Chang, Benioff said “All of us have to get our head around this idea that AI could do things, that before, we were doing, and we can move on to do higher-value work.” He revealed that about 30% to 50% of work being done at the company is now performed by AI.  Salesforce announced earlier this year that it was laying off 1,000 people as a result of its AI focus, something Benioff seems less keen to highlight. According to reports, the company will be hiring 1,000 extra people whose job will be to sell Salesforce’s AI agent tech, Agentforce, to other firms, who will likely use it to replace some of their own workers. Benioff said the agents can perform tasks at around 93% accuracy.”  Microosoft is investing $80 billio in AI while at the same time laying off thousands of employees. According to layoffs.fyi, 63,823 people from 150 tech companies have been laid off in 2025 so far.