Atlassian's AI layoffs prove your quota will survive the automation wave. Your sales org won't.
The tech industry is not replacing sellers with AI. It is using AI as cover to fix the bloat from 2021's hiring spree.
Bold perspectives from sales leaders across ANZ
The tech industry is not replacing sellers with AI. It is using AI as cover to fix the bloat from 2021's hiring spree.
ANZ sales professionals waiting for the US tech market to recover are missing the point: those roles aren't coming back because they were built on cheap capital, not customer demand.
B2B e-commerce platforms are eating the discovery-to-demo pipeline, and if you're still cold calling mid-market manufacturers, you're already behind.
Australia's retail boom is pulling VC money, talent, and hiring budgets away from enterprise SaaS—and your quota just got harder to hit.
E-commerce platforms are printing money while your B2B software deal sits in "legal review" for the third month.
Companies aren't frozen, they're just not hiring you anymore.
Every CRO says "people are our greatest asset" until they realize three AEs can do the work of five, and AI can do the prospecting for free.
Tech companies are blaming AI for layoffs, but the real culprit is the sales model that never worked in the first place.
While your OTE caps at $200k with impossible quotas, executives pull seven figures for missing targets—and it's getting worse.
Australian tech firms sacked 4,450 workers this year and blamed every single cut on AI—which tells you more about leadership than automation.
Consumer spending is back, but it's flowing to checkout buttons, not your enterprise deal pipeline.
Marc Benioff says sales jobs are protected while freezing sales hiring—and if you believe that contradiction, you deserve what's coming.