- Salesforce CEO says it does not hire more engineers, recruiting the sales staff may be sustained
- Human workers may have to share their jobs with AI agents
- Quarterly revenue has increased by 8% years, annual turnover 9%
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has confirmed that the company would not hire more engineers by 2025 due to the effects of artificial intelligence.
“We will not hire any new engineers this year,” Benioff said in a recent earnings call, “we see 30% productivity increase in technique and we will really continue to ride. And we want to grow sales pretty dramatically this year. “
Salesforce’s Agent AI has become so widespread that Benioff counts many studies suggesting that AI will not replace human workers. Instead, he sees a world where the two work hand in hand: “We are the last generation of CEOs who can only control people … you know, I think any CEO in the future will control, you know, people and agents together.”
Salesforce does not need more engineers
The move comes from a company that has invested heavily in AI, not only to improve the effectiveness of its customers with Agentic AI, but also to improve productivity for its own workers.
In the quarter, which ended January 31, 2025, Salesforce reported a healthy increase of 8% over the year in total revenue, up to $ 10.0 billion. Revenue throughout the year amounted to $ 37.9 billion, an increase of 9% year-over-year.
Benioff commented: “No company is better placed than Salesforce to lead customers through the digital Labor revolution.”
CEO added that delivery of the “Digital Labor Revolution” is Salesforce’s ambition: “Our goal is to be the # 1 provider of digital labor in the world.”
Buried for the spread of Agent AI, Benioff gave a further context as he was examined on the analyst call: “I don’t know about any company that doesn’t need automation for its people … and I don’t know any company that doesn’t need an agent layer.”
Already this calendar year, Salesforce has informed its workforce of about 1,000 redundancies, but at the same time employment efforts have reportedly been recruiting more sales staff.
