AI & Jobs Mews cuts 15% of its staff and blames the AI era
Mews is laying off about 170 people — 15% of staff — and pivoting from selling hotel software to selling AI that absorbs hotel operations work.
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AI & Jobs Mews is laying off about 170 people — 15% of staff — and pivoting from selling hotel software to selling AI that absorbs hotel operations work.
AI & Jobs A June 10 California WARN filing shows Salesforce cutting 86 jobs across Agentforce, MuleSoft, and Marketing Cloud — its third round since September, after support already shrank from 9,000 to 5,000.
AI & Jobs Wix announced the largest layoff in its 20-year history on May 25: ~1,000 jobs, 20% of headcount, explicitly tied to AI. The company that sold a website builder to people who didn't need a web developer is being disintermediated by AI tools — including its own $150M ARR Base44 acquisition.
AI & Jobs Freshworks beat Q1 estimates with $228.6M revenue (+16% YoY), announced its two largest contracts ever, then cut 11% of staff the same week — because, in CEO Dennis Woodside's words, more than half the company's code is now written by AI.
AI & Jobs Freshworks reported $228.6M Q1 revenue (+16% YoY), then announced cutting 500 employees (~11%). CEO Dennis Woodside: 「over half of our code originates in AI today」. Same percentage cut as November 2024.
AI & Jobs On Wednesday's Q1 earnings call, Bill McDermott told analysts ServiceNow will finish 2026 with the same ~29,000-person headcount it started with, even while absorbing acquisitions. The last five years the company added 2–3k a year. AI absorbs the delta.