Mizuho Financial Group (TYO:8411) plans to replace roughly 5,000 administrative positions in Japan with artificial intelligence over the next decade, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing the company.
The country's third-largest lender aims to enhance productivity by shifting human resources to more strategic focus areas, said the news wire.
The company emphasized that the move, which leverages full utilization of AI, is not a workforce reduction but a reallocation of talent, the publication said.
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