Alibaba’s Workforce Shrinks 34% in 2025 to 128,197 as Company Sheds Offline Retail Assets and Doubles Down on AI Ambitions

Tekedia | 21-03-2026 03:01pm |

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. disclosed Thursday that its global headcount fell sharply to 128,197 employees as of December 31, 2025, a 34% reduction from 194,320 a year earlier. The development underlines aggressive divestitures of labor-intensive offline retail businesses and a strategic pivot toward artificial intelligence as the company’s primary growth engine. The headcount drop, one

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