May 21, 2026 – 8.09pmAn increasingly bitter redundancy fight between staff at Australia’s biggest listed technology company WiseTech Global and its leadership has intensified after workers in its Chinese operations revealed internal communication had been modified to remove all references to artificial intelligence as a cause for the job losses.Fractious communications between staff and company leaders including chief executive Zubin Appoo, seen by The Australian Financial Review, show that employees globally were sent long-awaited details on Wednesday telling them they will find out if they are part of a 2000-strong redundancy round on Monday.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Battle over WiseTech AI job cuts intensifies amid China staff accusations
WiseTech staff have argued with its CEO on internal messages, about insensitive talk about AI redundancies, and references to AI being removed from Chinese staff emails.














