https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff
Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of Time magazine since 2018.
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In January 2023 Benioff announced the mass dismissal of approximately 7,000 Salesforce employees via a two-hour all-hands meeting over a call, a course of action he later admitted had been a ‘bad idea’.
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In September 2025, Benioff reduced Salesforce’s support workforce from 9,000 to about 5,000 employees because he “need[ed] less heads”. Salesforce stated that AI agents now handle half of all customer interactions and have reduced support costs by 17% since early 2025. The company added it had redeployed hundreds of employees into other departments within the company. The decision contrasted with Benioff’s earlier remarks suggesting that artificial intelligence would augment, rather than replace, white-collar workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce
In September 2024, the company deployed Agentforce, an agentic AI platform where users can create autonomous agents for customer service assistance, developing marketing campaigns, and coaching salespersons.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff stated in a June 2025 interview on The Circuit that artificial intelligence now performs between 30% and 50% of internal work at Salesforce, including functions such as software engineering, customer service, marketing, and analytics. Although he made clear that “humans still drive the future,” Benioff noted that AI is enabling the company to reassign employees into higher-value roles rather than reduce headcount.
haha consent factory go brrrr
reminder that person of the year is the person or thing that was most newsworthy the past year not an endorsement or praise
That sure is the company line.
This feels like rage bait. From the decision itself, to praising the executives rather than the techies, to putting them up on the girder like they were the common man doing a tough and dangerous job to build our modern city. You don’t just choose the worst thing at every possible decision point by accident.
Adolf Hitler was the man of the year in 1938.
Instead of a conventional portrait, the cover was an illustration by Rudolph von Ripper entitled ‘From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate’.
Stalin in 1939 and 1942.
There are a lot of lame ones, now that I look.
Richard Nixon in 1971 and 1972, the latter of which he shared with Henry Kissinger.
Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1983. George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Ted Turner in 1991. Sure, Time.
Newt Gingrich?!
lol Time calling a bunch of figureheads “architects” like the vapid shills that they are. None of these fucks has ever architected anything.
Time magazine going hard making clear on which side of the class war they stand.
Time Person of the Year is not an endorsement.
Oh god, the replacement of he iron workers in the skyscraper with the ruling elite class who literally contribute a tiny fraction of what they take from society is perhaps the most tone deaf take I have ever seen. Just absolutely disgusting, gutwrenching comparison, yet strangely poignant, as their goal is to make the working class disappear.
Yeah, you have to be super blind ethically to not understand that this is a highly fucked-up idea to come up and then follow through with (not that I’m surprised).
This. So much this
I do wonder what comes next for average people. I used to think a UBI would solve the world’s problems, but now I believe it would be just used as a method of controlling the general population. We’re a ways off yet from everything being replaced by this garbage, but when the time comes, I’m nervous about what will happen.
I don’t usually wish for a crane disaster.
