2,000 Workers Gone: Klarna Is First Major Company To Unleash Mass Layoffs Thanks To AI
“Not only can we do more with less, but we can do much more with less. Internally, we speak directionally about 2,000 employees. We don’t want to put a specific deadline on that.”
Translation: one-third of a billion layoffs (at least) in the US and Europe, or as we put it, “Think of it as the robotization of the service sector.”