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Most companies have resisted saying that AI could displace jobs. Mondee is being very clear about it.
Mondee, the booking platform for travel agents, cut roughly 15 jobs from its marketing team late last year, including its chief marketing officer.
AI is handling much of the work that this team did, and about six contract workers based in India are supplementing the rest, according to Orestes Fintiklis, vice chairman for Mondee.
“They are being replaced by AI and some outsourced external services in India,” Fintiklis told Skift. “And we can do that at a fraction of the cost. That team of 15 people was co