# Mews Hotel Software Cuts 15% of Staff, Cites AI Efficiency Gains

> Plenty of companies have trimmed staff and vaguely gestured at efficiency. Mews, the Amsterdam hotel-software unicorn, did something rarer: it named the cause. In cutting roughly 170 of its 1,350 employees, about 15 percent, the company said plainly that AI is changing the economics of hospitality software and letting one person own work that used to take a team. The cuts land across all teams and geographies, though Mews says customer-facing roles were largely spared and it still has 36 open positions. The move comes only six months after a $300 million Series D at a $2.5 billion valuation, and it fits the company's pivot from a straightforward software vendor toward an AI service provider that absorbs revenue management and procurement work for hotels. That candor is the notable part. Most executives dress up AI-driven layoffs in the language of restructuring. Mews is betting that admitting AI expanded its margins reads as strength to investors, even as it turns an abstract worry about job displacement into a concrete headcount number.

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## Wortins' read

Plenty of companies have trimmed staff and vaguely gestured at efficiency. Mews, the Amsterdam hotel-software unicorn, did something rarer: it named the cause. In cutting roughly 170 of its 1,350 employees, about 15 percent, the company said plainly that AI is changing the economics of hospitality software and letting one person own work that used to take a team. The cuts land across all teams and geographies, though Mews says customer-facing roles were largely spared and it still has 36 open positions. The move comes only six months after a $300 million Series D at a $2.5 billion valuation, and it fits the company's pivot from a straightforward software vendor toward an AI service provider that absorbs revenue management and procurement work for hotels. That candor is the notable part. Most executives dress up AI-driven layoffs in the language of restructuring. Mews is betting that admitting AI expanded its margins reads as strength to investors, even as it turns an abstract worry about job displacement into a concrete headcount number.

## Source

[Read the full story at phocuswire.com](https://www.phocuswire.com/news/technology/mews-job-cuts-15-per-cent)

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