WiseTech Global is axing up to 2000 jobs and says artificial intelligence has reduced the need to have developers and customer service staff in what the software giant has described as the “most significant shift in decades”.
The cuts represent almost 30 per cent of the company’s headcount, with WiseTech telling investors that the number of staff in some teams would be halved. The first to be cut are development and customer service teams at e2open, a business WiseTech acquired for $3.2 billion last year.
