Layoffs

‘Your craft is obsolete’: WiseTech staff in limbo as AI touted as better than humans

2026-05-06 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

WiseTech is axing 2,000 workers because apparently AI does logistics software better than the humans who built it. Staff have been left dangling for three months waiting to find out if they still have jobs, while the company cheerfully declares their craft 'obsolete.' Nothing says corporate empathy like a three-month existential crisis.

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