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February 25, 2026 — 9:59am
WiseTech Global will cut roughly 2000 staff - nearly a third of its 7000-strong workforce - over the next two years as chief executive Zubin Appoo bets the logistics software giant’s future on artificial intelligence.
Some teams face headcount reductions of up to 50 per cent, starting with product development and customer service, including recently acquired US platform e2open.
The restructure comes amid a steep sell-off across traditional software companies, from Atlassian to Adobe, driven by fears that AI-powered coding tools will allow upstarts to rapidly replicate services that took incumbents years to build.
“The era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over,” Appoo declared on Wednesday, calling AI “the most significant shift in decades” for software development.
