India, Oct. 19 -- A tech CEO whose company reduced its workforce from more than 1,000 employees to just 120 has said that even high-performing workers may struggle to retain their jobs if they lack skills across multiple areas.

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Robert Vis, CEO of communications infrastructure company Bird, told Business Insider that artificial intelligence (AI) is making employees with diverse skills and the ability to work independently increasingly valuable.

"The profile that we were very focused on was people with high agency," Vis said. "If you're high agency and you're full stack, then AI leverages you to basically be your best self." ...