By Josh Taylor
Publication Date: 2026-05-06 15:00:00
WiseTech employees have been waiting for nearly three months to be told whether they are among the 2,000 employees the logistics software company will have to cut due to advances in AI. The employees criticize the waiting as stressful and “ridiculous”.
The comments came as the founder told investors on Tuesday an AI agent could learn to do a human’s job in just 15 minutes, according to the Australian Financial Review.
The Australian Stock Exchange-listed company announced in late February that it would lay off almost 30% of its workforce across 40 countries, with 2,000 of the 7,000 jobs lost over the next 18 months.
Some areas would be hit harder than others, and product, development and customer service teams are expected to be reduced by up to 50%, Chief Executive Officer Zubin Appoo said at an investor briefing in February.
“The era of manually writing code as the core of engineering is over,” said Appoo.
WiseTech was one of several companies that…
