{"id":15412,"date":"2025-09-11T06:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15412\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:46:06","slug":"klarna-course-correct-after-aggressive-ai-adoption-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15412\/","title":{"rendered":"Klarna &#8216;course-correct&#8217; after aggressive AI adoption \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2022, the company said it was able <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klarna.com\/international\/press\/klarna-accelerates-global-momentum-in-q1-2025-and-unlocks-large-gains-from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to streamline its workforce<\/a> by around 40%, with Siemiatkowski telling CNBC that headcount had shrunk from about 5,000 to almost 3,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>But the cuts are not only because of AI, according to the CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have simply communicated to our employees that what we&#8217;re going to do is we&#8217;re gonna shrink, so we&#8217;re going to stop hiring,&#8221; he said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/14\/klarna-ceo-says-ai-helped-company-shrink-workforce-by-40percent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">as quoted by CNBC<\/a>\u00a0in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Natural attrition in a company like ours is 15 to 20% per year, so we shrink naturally 15 to 20% by people just leaving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company also noted in March that it was able to hike the share of tech employees from 26% in 2022 to 52% in the first quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2022, the company said it was able to streamline its workforce by around 40%, with Siemiatkowski telling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17670,17669,1144,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-15412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-ai-layoffs","9":"tag-ai-strategy","10":"tag-human-resources","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}