Klarna CEO Says AI Stops Hiring Amid Advertised Roles
Klarna CE Siemiatkowski Sebastian recently told Bloomberg that his company has essentially stopped hiring for over a year now giving credit to generative Ai for being a massive workforce reduction model.
Despite Klarna bullishness on Ai, the company is not relying entirely on Ai to replace human workers who leave, as open job listings. For more human and the company at large.
He said we stopped hiring about a year ago. We use to be 4,500 workers, now we are 3,500, We have a natural attrition as every tech company.
Klarna also said he believes Ai can effectively replace workers, ” He said ” I am of the opinion taht Ai can do virtually all the work that we humans do, we are going give some improvement. Ai also provides by increase the pace at which the salaries of our employees increases.
Klarna stated that ChatGPT was going the job of 700 employess at some point also dropping sales force on CRM due to the inclusion of Ai.
Although he said while Klarna has significantly reduced its workforce in the last year, the buy now, pay later company has not completely stopped hiring.
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