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Salesforce Puts AI at Center of Operations While Avoiding Mass Layoffs

Marc Benioff frames deeper AI integration as a productivity boost that is transforming roles through targeted redeployment

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Overview

  • As of July 2025, AI tools handle roughly 50% of tasks across Salesforce’s coding, customer service and internal processes
  • Agentforce now resolves 85% of incoming customer queries without human oversight
  • In the first quarter of 2025, AI generated 25% of Salesforce’s new code, accelerating development cycles
  • Rather than cutting headcount, Salesforce has redeployed over half of its workforce into AI-augmented roles and paused engineering hires
  • Benioff describes the AI rollout as a radical workforce augmentation that frees employees to focus on higher-value work