Salesforce will not be hiring any more software engineers in 2025 amid significant productivity boosts from AI, Marc Benioff has revealed.

The CEO and founder of Salesforce told the 20VC with Harry Stebbings podcast that the cloud giant was in the midst of doing its business plan for next year, and Agentforce – the company’s flagship artificial intelligence product – was the “only thing that really matters today”.

“30% Productivity Boost” from AI

In a long-ranging conversation with the venture capitalist, Marc outlined the reasons why his company decided to implement the hiring freeze.

When asked if Salesforce would have more or fewer employees in five years’ time, he said he thinks the company will “probably be larger”.

But he went on to say: “We’re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with Agentforce and with other AI technology that we’re using for engineering teams by more than 30% – to the point where our engineering velocity is incredible. I can’t believe what we’re achieving in engineering.”

“And then, we will have less support engineers next year because we have an agentic layer. We will have more salespeo