Thursday’s layoffs were previously announced in January, a company spokesperson confirmed.
The corporate software company blamed the layoff rounds, originally announced on Jan. 4, on overhiring during the pandemic. In a two-hour meeting the following day, CEO Marc Benioff complained that just half of the company’s salespeople were responsible for 96% of sales, according to aIn San Francisco, Thursday’s layoff round hit 258 workers, affecting “sales and customer service,” “technology and product” and “general administration,” according to a WARN notice obtained by SFGATE.
The 10% cut, which began a brutal January of tech layoff announcements, will eventually leave about 7,000 people out of work.reported Thursday that 4,000 people vanished from Salesforce’s Slack channel over the past two days, a tally that may include contractors. Salesforce spokesperson Carolyn Guss confirmed to SFGATE that Thursday’s layoffs were part of the round announced in January.
Layoff posts flooded LinkedIn from across the country and around San Francisco on Thursday morning, as workers bid adieu to their Salesforce “ohana” and placed “#opentowork” filters on their profiles. Though Benioff has expressed concerns about the productivity of newer salespeople, many of the posts are coming from workers who had been at the company for more than five years.
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