NYT: SAP Tells Workers to Invent New, More Valuable AI-Aided Jobs to Avoid Layoffs — Company Cut ~10K Staff in 2024 as CFO Signals 1–2% Ongoing Annual Cuts

The NYT reports SAP is publicly urging its ~108,000 workers to reinvent their roles with AI-augmented workflows rather than cut headcount outright, following the €2B restructuring that touched ~8,000 roles in 2024. CEO Christian Klein is promoting Joule copilot deployments and 100+ AI use cases as evidence the retraining bet is working. But the pitch is running against CFO Dominik Asam's late-2025 disclosure that annual cuts of 1–2% (~1,000–2,000 jobs) will now recur indefinitely, and Klein's own warning that vibe coding could leave 'no one developing software inside SAP' within three to four years.