By @ACSnewsfeed
Publication Date: 2026-05-28 00:00:00
Tensions have boiled over at WiseTech Global, where the Australian-founded software company’s CEO was allegedly threatened with violence as employees raised concerns about the company’s handling of AI-related layoffs.
WiseTech, a logistics software maker and one of the country’s largest publicly traded technology companies, announced in February that it would cut around 2,000 jobs as part of a two-year restructuring as part of a “deep AI transformation.”
After months of waiting, workers in Australia were reportedly given more details about the changes last Wednesday, before the first group of affected employees were informed of their redundancies on Monday.
Paul Inglis, director of trade union group Professionals Australia, said Information age that around 190 employees are expected to have gone into a two-week consultation phase, although “the final number has not yet been determined”.
“This is understood to be the start of a broader restructuring process that…
