Klarna: KI-Entlassungen
Kumuliert gestrichene Stellen · Klarna
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- 14. Mai 2025−2.000 gestrichenExplizitZurückgezogenFinanzen · SE
Not a single layoff round: CEO said AI plus a hiring freeze shrank the workforce ~40% (from about 5,000 to almost 3,000) via attrition, with its AI assistant doing the work of ~700 support agents. Days earlier he announced Klarna would hire humans back for customer service after AI delivered 'lower quality.'
CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski (CNBC, May 14, 2025): AI helped Klarna shrink its workforce by about 40%. Walkback (Bloomberg, May 8-9, 2025): AI chat was 'lower quality'; 'it's so critical that you are clear to your customer that there will always be a human if you want.'
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