Mizuho Converts Thousands of Clerical Staff to AI Development Roles with Dify Enterprise Platform

Japan's third-largest lender Mizuho Financial Group is transforming its workforce by transitioning up to 5,000 clerical employees—roughly one-third of its 15,000-person administrative workforce—into AI development and higher-value roles over the next decade, marking an ambitious bet on internal AI capability building rather than job elimination.