内容来源：https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/jack-dorsey-block-layoffs-4000-halved-employees-your-company-is-next/

内容总结：

美国数字支付巨头Block公司于近日宣布大规模裁员计划，将裁减超过4000名员工，约占其全球员工总数的四成。消息公布后，公司股价在盘后交易中大幅上涨逾24%。

此次裁员被公司创始人杰克·多西形容为“主动且富有同理心”的战略调整，旨在组建更精干的团队以加速人工智能技术应用。公司首席财务官表示，裁员将帮助公司“利用人工智能实现工作自动化，推动高效团队快速前进”。

值得注意的是，多西与特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克长期保持着微妙关系。2022年马斯克收购推特后曾一次性裁员约50%，当时多西作为重要外部投资者见证了整个过程。分析人士指出，此次Block的裁员规模与执行方式，与马斯克当年的激进改革存在相似之处。

当前多家科技企业均以人工智能转型为由进行人员结构调整，但市场研究机构Forrester近期报告指出，许多裁员实质仍出于财务压力。多西在社交媒体上坦言，预计未来一年多数企业都将面临类似调整，并强调“主动变革比被动应对更为可取”。

中文翻译：

杰克·多尔西长期以来一直是埃隆·马斯克的公开崇拜者。如今看来，他似乎一直在效仿这位科技巨头的做法。

周四，多尔西宣布其创立的支付公司Block将裁员超过4000人，约占全球员工总数的近一半，使员工规模从一万余人缩减至6000人以下。该公司旗下运营着Square、Cash App和Tidal等业务。投资者对此反应热烈，推动其股价在盘后交易中飙升逾24%。

这并非大型科技公司首次采取此类行动。2022年11月，马斯克将推特私有化后一次性裁减了约50%的员工，此举震动了硅谷，也重新定义了首席执行官单次裁员规模的潜规则。

多尔西当时身处特殊位置目睹了全过程。他将自己持有的约2.4%推特股份转为对马斯克收购后的新公司投资，而非套现离场，这使他成为更名为X的公司最大外部股东之一。

两人的关系堪称科技界最奇特的组合之一，时而温情赞誉，时而公开抨击，周而复始。多尔西曾力挺马斯克收购推特，后又表示马斯克"本该放弃交易"；他协助创立去中心化社交平台Bluesky作为推特的替代品，却退出其董事会并称赞X是"自由技术"。两人还同为比特币的公开倡导者——Block和特斯拉的资产负债表上都持有这种加密货币。

多尔西将此次裁员描绘为前瞻性甚至充满同理心的决策，而非财务危机下的无奈之举（尽管4000名失业者可能有不同看法）。他在X上写道："反复裁员会摧毁士气、分散专注力，并损害客户和股东对我们领导能力的信任。"他预言一年内多数公司都将面临相同处境，"我宁愿主动诚实地面对，而非被动仓促应对"。

至少官方说法是，人工智能推动了此次裁员。Block首席财务官阿姆里塔·阿胡贾表示，裁员将使公司"以更精干的高素质团队加速发展，运用人工智能实现更多工作自动化"。

随着越来越多公司以人工智能带来显著效益为由大幅裁员，Salesforce和亚马逊也加入了这一行列。不过福雷斯特研究公司上月发布的报告对此提出质疑：这些效益究竟有多少真实性？许多裁员是否只是出于财务动机的托辞？

英文来源：

Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes.
On Thursday, Dorsey announced that Block, the payments company he founded that operates Square, Cash App, and Tidal, is cutting more than 4,000 employees, nearly half its global workforce, taking it from over 10,000 workers down to just under 6,000. Investors responded enthusiastically, sending the stock up more than 24% in after-hours trading.
It isn’t the first time a major tech company has done something of the sort. In November 2022, Musk slashed roughly 50% of Twitter’s staff in a single stroke after taking the company private, a move that rattled many in Silicon Valley and rewrote the unofficial rules for how far a CEO could go in one shot.
Dorsey was in an unusual position to watch it unfold. He’d rolled his roughly 2.4% ownership stake in Twitter into Musk’s takeover rather than taking a cash payout, making him one of the largest outside investors in what became X.
The two men have had one of tech’s stranger relationships, with warm words giving way to public shots, then back again. Dorsey championed Musk’s Twitter acquisition, then said Musk “should have walked away.” He helped launch Bluesky, the decentralized Twitter alternative, then quit its board and called X “freedom technology.” Both are also vocal Bitcoin advocates — Block and Tesla each carry the cryptocurrency on their balance sheets.
Dorsey framed Thursday’s cuts as a proactive, even empathetic, choice, and not a financial emergency. (The 4,000 people losing their jobs may see it differently.) “Repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead,” he wrote on X. He predicted that within a year, most companies will arrive at the same place. “I’d rather get there honestly and on our own terms than be forced into it reactively,” he said.
The cuts are being driven, at least officially, by AI. Block CFO Amrita Ahuja said the cuts will position the company to “move faster with smaller, highly talented teams using AI to automate more work.”
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Salesforce and Amazon are among a growing list of other companies that have made enormous staffing cuts citing the increased gains they are seeing from AI, though a Forrester Research report last month cast some doubt on how real those gains are versus the likelihood that many layoffs are financially driven.