Benioff Says Salesforce Won't Hire Engineers This Year Due To AI

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said his firm, San Francisco's largest private employer, does not plan to hire engineers this year because of the success of AI agents created and used by the company. From a report: 'My message to CEOs right now is that we are the last generation to manage only humans,' Benioff said Wednesday on Salesforce's earnings call, indicating that companies of the future will have hybrid human and digital workforces. Benioff added that Salesforce's mission is to become 'the No. 1 digital labor provider, period' to other companies.

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