<p>作者：Emily Bary 和 William Gavin</p>
<p>科技行业正在引领大规模裁员潮。Cloudflare、Upwork 和 Bill 在周四宣布了大幅裁员，紧随 Coinbase 本周早些时候的公告。</p>
<p>Cloudflare 计划裁减约 20% 的员工，并表示在过去三个月内，内部 AI 使用量增长了 600%。</p>
<p>随着人工智能渗透美国企业，这已成为一个备受争议的话题：AI 会像悲观者所担心的那样摧毁劳动力，还是会让公司能够为员工提供更有意义的任务，这是更乐观的观点？</p>
<p>一些早期证据表明，悲观者可能是对的。仅在周四下午，至少有三家上市公司透露了进行大规模裁员的计划，因为工作世界正在发生变化。</p>
<p>&#34;AI 意味着更小、资源配置不同的产品和工程团队可以比以往更大地影响，&#34; gig 经济平台 Upwork (UPWK) 的首席执行官 Hayden Brown 在一封宣布裁员的员工信中表示，裁员将影响约四分之一的员工。</p>
<p>不要错过：中层管理者因工作场所的 AI 而面临裁员。以下是如何保住你的工作的建议。</p>
<p>他补充说，&#34;两比萨团队已经死了，&#34; 似乎是指亚马逊 (AMZN) 的观点，即团队应该小到只需两比萨就能喂饱。Upwork 似乎在说这还不够小：该公司现在正在&#34;整合冗余工作并简化工作流程以减少交接。&#34;</p>
<p>网络安全公司 Cloudflare (NET) 周四披露将裁减超过 1,100 名员工，这相当于根据去年年报披露的员工人数约 20% 的裁员。</p>
<p>&#34;Cloudflare 在过去三个月内的 AI 使用量增加了超过 600%，&#34; 联合创始人 Matthew Prince 和 Michelle Zatlyn 在给员工的信中表示，该信也公开分享。&#34;公司各部门的员工从工程到人力资源再到财务和市场营销，每天进行数千次 AI 代理会话以完成工作。&#34;</p>
<p>在代理 AI 的世界中，人工智能可以在没有指示的情况下执行任务，公司希望&#34;增强我们为客户提供的价值。&#34;</p>
<p>最后，Bill Holdings (BILL) 披露在一份文件中将裁减最多 30% 的员工。</p>
<p>&#34;我们正在积极推动公司成为 AI 原生的端到端，并迅速改变我们的工作方式，&#34; 首席执行官 René Lacerte 在财报电话会议上表示。</p>
<p>客户&#34;不仅在加入 Bill 时会采用软件，他们还将带来一支学习其财务后台并进行管理的专家团队，&#34; 他说。</p>
<p>与此同时，公司在一份声明中表示，其董事会已批准一项新的 10 亿美元回购计划。</p>
<p>这些公告是在加密货币经纪商 Coinbase Global (COIN) 本周早些时候表示将裁员 14% 作为 AI 推动的一部分之后发布的。Meta Platforms (META) 在上个月底确认将裁减 10% 的员工，同时加大对 AI 的投入。Block (XYZ) 在二月份首次启动裁员潮，计划裁减超过 40% 的员工，周四表示精简结构正在取得成效。</p>
<p>另见：Block 财报显示增长回升，可能验证了大规模 AI 推动的有效性</p>
<p>&#34;科技公司继续宣布大规模裁员，并在裁员公告中领先于所有行业，&#34; 工作场所专家、Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas 的首席营收官 Andy Challenger 在一篇博客中表示。</p>
<p>他补充说：&#34;无论个别工作是否被 AI 替代，这些角色的资金都在减少。&#34;</p>
<p>根据 Challenger 的数据，截至四月，AI 占今年所有裁员计划的约 16%，高于三月的 13%。该博客指出，AI 是裁员公告背后的第三大因素。</p>
<p>阅读：Coinbase 将裁员 14%，因为 AI 促使&#34;一种新的工作方式&#34;</p>
<p>最近的公告引发了市场反应不一。Block 在二月份的裁员公告后，下一交易日股价上涨了 17%。周四，该公司表示其 AI 效率推动了乐观的财务结果，股价在盘后交易中上涨了 8%。</p>
<p>但 Cloudflare 的股价在裁员公告后在盘后交易中下跌了 19%。Upwork 的股价下跌了 18%，而 Bill 的股价上涨了超过 7%。这三家公司也发布了财报，因此股价波动可能反映了多种因素。</p>
<p>AI 是否完全是最新裁员的原因尚不清楚。在 Block 的公告后，批评者表示该公司多年来过度招聘，并质疑该公司是否在利用 AI 进步作为回撤这些举措的借口，首席执行官 Jack Dorsey 当时对此进行了反驳。</p>
<p>此外，尚不清楚这些举措是否会在长期内取得成效。Coinbase 最近的公告让一些社交媒体用户怀疑，即使在 AI 协助下，非技术员工接触编码是否真的是一件好事。</p>
<p>Block 的业务负责人 Owen Jennings 告诉 MarketWatch，尽管他所在的金融科技公司的 100% 员工现在都在工作中使用 AI，&#34;任何生产变更都将由软件工程团队进行审核。&#34;</p>
<p>-Emily Bary -William Gavin</p>
<p>本文由 MarketWatch 创建，MarketWatch 由道琼斯公司运营。MarketWatch 独立于道琼斯新闻通讯和华尔街日报发布。</p>
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<p>2017 年 05 月 07 日 26:00 ET</p>

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<p>科技行业正在经历大规模裁员，Cloudflare、Upwork 和 Bill Holdings 等公司因人工智能使用增加而宣布裁员。Cloudflare 计划将其员工人数减少 20%，并指出人工智能的使用增长了 600%。Upwork 的首席执行官提到向小团队的转变，而 Bill Holdings 旨在成为人工智能原生公司，裁减多达 30% 的员工。这些裁员反映了一个更广泛的趋势，今年人工智能占裁员的 16%。市场反应各异，一些公司在宣布裁员后股价上涨，而另一些公司则面临下跌</p>

<p>By Emily Bary and William Gavin</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>作者：Emily Bary 和 William Gavin</p>
</div><p>The tech sector is leading a rush of mass layoffs. Cloudflare, Upwork, Bill outlined big cuts on Thursday, following Coinbase's announcement earlier in the week.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>科技行业正在引领大规模裁员潮。Cloudflare、Upwork 和 Bill 在周四宣布了大幅裁员，紧随 Coinbase 本周早些时候的公告。</p>
</div><p>Cloudflare, which plans to cut about 20% of its employees, said that internal AI usage was up 600% just in the past three months.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Cloudflare 计划裁减约 20% 的员工，并表示在过去三个月内，内部 AI 使用量增长了 600%。</p>
</div><p>It's been a hotly debated topic as artificial-intelligence permeates corporate America: Will AI decimate workforces, as cynics have feared, or will it allow companies to simply give their employees more meaningful tasks, as is the more hopeful view?</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>随着人工智能渗透美国企业，这已成为一个备受争议的话题：AI 会像悲观者所担心的那样摧毁劳动力，还是会让公司能够为员工提供更有意义的任务，这是更乐观的观点？</p>
</div><p>Some early evidence suggests that the doomsayers may have been onto something. On Thursday afternoon alone, at least three public companies revealed plans to conduct mass layoffs as the world of work changes.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>一些早期证据表明，悲观者可能是对的。仅在周四下午，至少有三家上市公司透露了进行大规模裁员的计划，因为工作世界正在发生变化。</p>
</div><p>&#34;AI means smaller, differently resourced teams in product and engineering can make a bigger impact than ever,&#34; Hayden Brown, the CEO of gig-economy platform Upwork (UPWK), said in a posted letter to employees that announced job cuts affecting about a quarter of staffers.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>&#34;AI 意味着更小、资源配置不同的产品和工程团队可以比以往更大地影响，&#34; gig 经济平台 Upwork (UPWK) 的首席执行官 Hayden Brown 在一封宣布裁员的员工信中表示，裁员将影响约四分之一的员工。</p>
</div><p>Don't miss: Middle managers are on the chopping block thanks to AI in the workplace. Here's how to save your job.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>不要错过：中层管理者因工作场所的 AI 而面临裁员。以下是如何保住你的工作的建议。</p>
</div><p>He added that &#34;two-pizza teams are dead,&#34; seemingly a reference to Amazon.com's (AMZN) view that teams should be small enough that it would take no more than two pizzas to feed the group. Upwork seems to be saying that's not small enough: The company is now &#34;consolidating redundant work and collapsing workflows to reduce handoffs.&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>他补充说，&#34;两比萨团队已经死了，&#34; 似乎是指亚马逊 (AMZN) 的观点，即团队应该小到只需两比萨就能喂饱。Upwork 似乎在说这还不够小：该公司现在正在&#34;整合冗余工作并简化工作流程以减少交接。&#34;</p>
</div><p>Cybersecurity company Cloudflare (NET) disclosed Thursday that it would cut more than 1,100 workers, which amounts to about 20% of staff based on an employee count disclosed in the last annual filing.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>网络安全公司 Cloudflare (NET) 周四披露将裁减超过 1,100 名员工，这相当于根据去年年报披露的员工人数约 20% 的裁员。</p>
</div><p>&#34;Cloudflare's usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone,&#34; co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn said in a letter to staffers that was also shared publicly. &#34;Employees across the company from engineering to HR to finance to marketing run thousands of AI-agent sessions each day to get their work done.&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>&#34;Cloudflare 在过去三个月内的 AI 使用量增加了超过 600%，&#34; 联合创始人 Matthew Prince 和 Michelle Zatlyn 在给员工的信中表示，该信也公开分享。&#34;公司各部门的员工从工程到人力资源再到财务和市场营销，每天进行数千次 AI 代理会话以完成工作。&#34;</p>
</div><p>In the world of agentic AI, where artificial intelligence can carry out tasks without direction, the company wants &#34;to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers.&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在代理 AI 的世界中，人工智能可以在没有指示的情况下执行任务，公司希望&#34;增强我们为客户提供的价值。&#34;</p>
</div><p>Finally, Bill Holdings (BILL), which makes back-office software, disclosed in a filing that it would reduce up to 30% of its staff.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>最后，Bill Holdings (BILL) 披露在一份文件中将裁减最多 30% 的员工。</p>
</div><p>&#34;We are aggressively moving our company to become AI native end-to-end and rapidly changing how we work,&#34; CEO René Lacerte said on the earnings call.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>&#34;我们正在积极推动公司成为 AI 原生的端到端，并迅速改变我们的工作方式，&#34; 首席执行官 René Lacerte 在财报电话会议上表示。</p>
</div><p>Customers &#34;will not only be adopting software when they join Bill, they will be bringing on a team of expert agents that learn their financial back office and run it,&#34; he said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>客户&#34;不仅在加入 Bill 时会采用软件，他们还将带来一支学习其财务后台并进行管理的专家团队，&#34; 他说。</p>
</div><p>At the same time, the company said in a release that its board had authorized a new $1 billion buyback program.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>与此同时，公司在一份声明中表示，其董事会已批准一项新的 10 亿美元回购计划。</p>
</div><p>Those announcements came after cryptocurrency brokerage Coinbase Global (COIN) said earlier this week that it would lay off 14% of employees as part of an AI push. Meta Platforms (META) late last month confirmed that it would reduce its workforce by 10% while doubling down on AI. Block (XYZ), which arguably kicked off the wave in February with its plan to slash more than 40% of its workforce, said Thursday that the leaner structure was paying off.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这些公告是在加密货币经纪商 Coinbase Global (COIN) 本周早些时候表示将裁员 14% 作为 AI 推动的一部分之后发布的。Meta Platforms (META) 在上个月底确认将裁减 10% 的员工，同时加大对 AI 的投入。Block (XYZ) 在二月份首次启动裁员潮，计划裁减超过 40% 的员工，周四表示精简结构正在取得成效。</p>
</div><p>See also: Block earnings show a growth pickup, in a potential validation of the massive AI push</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>另见：Block 财报显示增长回升，可能验证了大规模 AI 推动的有效性</p>
</div><p>&#34;Technology companies continue to announce large-scale cuts and are leading all industries in layoff announcements,&#34; said Andy Challenger, workplace expert and chief revenue officer for Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas, in a blog post.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>&#34;科技公司继续宣布大规模裁员，并在裁员公告中领先于所有行业，&#34; 工作场所专家、Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas 的首席营收官 Andy Challenger 在一篇博客中表示。</p>
</div><p>He added: &#34;Regardless of whether individual jobs are being replaced by AI, the money for those roles is.&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>他补充说：&#34;无论个别工作是否被 AI 替代，这些角色的资金都在减少。&#34;</p>
</div><p>Overall, AI accounted for about 16% of all job-cut plans for the year as of April, up from 13% as of March, according to the Challenger data. AI has been the third-leading factor behind layoff announcements, the blog post noted.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>根据 Challenger 的数据，截至四月，AI 占今年所有裁员计划的约 16%，高于三月的 13%。该博客指出，AI 是裁员公告背后的第三大因素。</p>
</div><p>Read: Coinbase will lay off 14% of its staff as AI spurs 'a new way of working'</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>阅读：Coinbase 将裁员 14%，因为 AI 促使&#34;一种新的工作方式&#34;</p>
</div><p>Recent announcements have been met with mixed market reactions. Block's layoff disclosure in February was followed by a 17% stock jump in the next trading session. Shares were up 8% in after-hours action Thursday as the company said its AI efficiencies helped drive upbeat financial results.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>最近的公告引发了市场反应不一。Block 在二月份的裁员公告后，下一交易日股价上涨了 17%。周四，该公司表示其 AI 效率推动了乐观的财务结果，股价在盘后交易中上涨了 8%。</p>
</div><p>But Cloudflare shares were off 19% in extended trading following the layoff announcement. Upwork's stock was down 18%, while Bill's was up more than 7%. The three companies reported earnings as well, so the stock moves likely reflect a multitude of factors.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>但 Cloudflare 的股价在裁员公告后在盘后交易中下跌了 19%。Upwork 的股价下跌了 18%，而 Bill 的股价上涨了超过 7%。这三家公司也发布了财报，因此股价波动可能反映了多种因素。</p>
</div><p>Whether AI is fully the cause of the latest job cuts is unclear. After Block's announcement, critics said the company had overhired for years and wondered if the company was using AI advancements as an excuse to walk back those moves, an argument that CEO Jack Dorsey disputed at time.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>AI 是否完全是最新裁员的原因尚不清楚。在 Block 的公告后，批评者表示该公司多年来过度招聘，并质疑该公司是否在利用 AI 进步作为回撤这些举措的借口，首席执行官 Jack Dorsey 当时对此进行了反驳。</p>
</div><p>It also remains to be seen if the moves pay off pay off over the long run. Coinbase's recent announcement made some social-media users wonder if it was actually a good thing for nontechnical staffers to dabble in coding, even with AI assistance.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>此外，尚不清楚这些举措是否会在长期内取得成效。Coinbase 最近的公告让一些社交媒体用户怀疑，即使在 AI 协助下，非技术员工接触编码是否真的是一件好事。</p>
</div><p>Owen Jennings, Block's business lead, told MarketWatch that while 100% of staffers at his financial-technology are now using AI at work, &#34;any production change is going to be reviewed by the software engineering team.&#34;</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Block 的业务负责人 Owen Jennings 告诉 MarketWatch，尽管他所在的金融科技公司的 100% 员工现在都在工作中使用 AI，&#34;任何生产变更都将由软件工程团队进行审核。&#34;</p>
</div><p>-Emily Bary -William Gavin</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>-Emily Bary -William Gavin</p>
</div><p>This content was created by MarketWatch, which is operated by Dow Jones &amp; Co. MarketWatch is published independently from Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.</p>
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</div><p>05-07-26 2017ET</p>
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AI is coming for your job after all. These new announcements prove it.

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人工智能最终还是会取代你的工作。这些新公告证明了这一点