The company, which is one of the country’s largest employers by headcount, will “do everything possible to safeguard employment for hundreds of thousands of staff, including blue-collar workers,” Liu said in an internal speech on Wednesday, according to a video circulating on social media.

JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vowed in an internal speech to protect the firm’s 900,000 workers from AI displacement. The pledge sits uneasily with JD’s heavy automation footprint…

Company has set up more than 80 training bases around China to retrain workers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The company, which is one of the country’s largest employers by headcount, will “do everything possible to safeguard employment for hundreds of thousands of staff, including…