Box CEO Aaron Levie Drops 1,640-Leader Survey: The Companies Adopting AI Hardest Are Hiring Engineers Fastest, Not Cutting Them
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On June 13 Levie shared Box's State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 survey of 1,640 IT decision-makers across the US, UK, France and Japan, arguing the heaviest AI adopters are expanding headcount rather than shrinking it. His framing — 'do you continue with your pared-down approach, or hire more engineers because each one is 2X or 5X more capable?' — is a direct counter-data-point to the AI-displacement narrative. For builders it reframes the leverage question: capability gains get reinvested into output, not absorbed as layoffs.