Autodesk has announced workforce reductions as part of changes linked to the next phase of its corporate strategy. The company said it plans to reduce its global workforce by about 7 percent, representing roughly 1,000 roles, with most of the impact affecting customer-facing sales teams.
The company stated that the primary reason for the reduction is the completion of a multi-year transformation of its go-to-market organization. Autodesk said this effort was intended to simplify customer engagement and align sales operations with longer-term industry direction. Management described the current action as the final phase of that transformation, alongside smaller organizational adjustments intended to align resources with future priorities.
Autodesk indicated that resources are being redirected toward areas such as artificial intelligence, its software platform, and industry cloud offerings, alongside adjustments to corporate functions. According to the company, these changes are intended to support scalability and ongoing business operations and that the decision was not driven by external economic conditions and was not related to replacing employees with AI technologies.
For more information, read the message shared with employees on Autodesk’s website.
History shows us exactly how this goes: corporations downsize, and the ‘structural changes’ usually just mean the remaining team is forced to absorb the extra workload. Instead of innovation, we get a direct path to burnout.