By World Socialist Web Site
Publication Date: 2026-02-28 01:44:00
WiseTech Global, one of Australia’s largest technology companies, has announced plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs over the next 18 months. This is the most significant AI-driven mass layoff in the country to date. This amounts to the elimination of almost 30 percent of the company’s global workforce, which makes software for the logistics industry.
The job losses will be felt most acutely among software developers and customer service representatives at the company’s offices in 40 countries. This includes E2open, the American cloud computing company WiseTech, which was acquired last year for $2.1 billion, which could result in staff cuts of up to 50 percent.
Zubin Appoo, CEO of WiseTech, said 500 jobs had already been cut since last July, declaring: “The era of manually writing code as the core of engineering is over.”
The company’s chairman and co-founder, Richard White, boasted: “Individually, people can go far, far…”
