Sabre Lays Off Staff Amid C-Suite Reshuffle in Bid to Become ‘AI-Native’
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Reports are coming in about layoffs, from London to Uruguay, showing the impact of Sabre’s ‘inflation offset program.’ That and several leadership shifts show how Sabre is restructuring around agentic AI.
Sabre is cutting jobs, reshuffling its C-suite, and investing $65 million to transform itself into what CEO Kurt Ekert calls 'an AI-native technology company' through AI adoption and offshore labor.
The layoffs are already under way.
On Wednesday, Sabre employees began posting on LinkedIn about losing their jobs, with reports surfacing from the UK and as far away as South America.
"Today was a difficult day for many at Sabre," wrote a technical manager in a LinkedIn post, expressing support for affected colleagues. "Beyond the announcements and numbers, what truly matters are the people."
Other messages offered recommendations for severed coworkers, made networking requests from accounts newly featuring “open-to-work” status or looked back on their years at the company.
The move seems to have taken Giovanni Tavaniello, a project services employee at Sabre in Montevideo, Uruguay, by surprise: “Mi
