{"id":969507,"date":"2025-10-25T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969507"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:26:54","slug":"salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-ai-wont-replace-jobs-and-he-is-hiring-them-in-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/25\/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-ai-wont-replace-jobs-and-he-is-hiring-them-in-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: AI won&#8217;t replace \u2026 jobs and he is hiring them in thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff insists artificial intelligence won&#8217;t eliminate sales positions, announcing plans to hire between 3,000 and 5,000 new salespeople as the company pushes toward 20,000 account executives by year&#8217;s end. Speaking in October 2025, Benioff emphasised that &#8220;face-to-face communication&#8221; remains essential in sales, stating that AI &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have a soul&#8221; and lacks authentic human connectivity. The billionaire tech executive&#8217;s stance comes despite Salesforce&#8217;s aggressive AI adoption across other departments, including customer service where the company cut 4,000 roles earlier this year.&#8221;We love AI, OK? But AI \u2014 it&#8217;s not the same,&#8221; Benioff told TBPN. &#8220;It&#8217;s not that human connectivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff insists artificial intelligence won&#8217;t eliminate sales positions, announcing plans to hire between 3,000 and 5,000 new salespeople as the company pushes toward 20,000 account executives by year&#8217;s end. Speaking in October 2025, Benioff emphasised that &#8220;face-to-face communication&#8221; remains essential in sales, stating that AI &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have a soul&#8221; and lacks authentic human connectivity. The billionaire tech executive&#8217;s stance comes despite Salesforce&#8217;s aggressive AI adoption across other departments, including customer service where the company cut 4,000 roles earlier this year.&#8221;We love AI, OK? But AI \u2014 it&#8217;s not the same,&#8221; Benioff told TBPN. &#8220;It&#8217;s not that human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}