Salesforce Pledges ‘No Significant Layoffs’ Amid COVID-19 Crisis
In a recent tweet, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff promised that the cloud software giant will not conduct any significant layoffs for the next 90 days on the sidelines of COVID-19 pandemic threatening the economy and jobs. This official order doesn’t only include salaried employees, in fact, hourly workers around the world will also be receiving their pay, as usual, while the offices will remain closed to impose social distancing measures. “We will continue to pay our hourly workers while our offices are closed,” stated in the tweet Benioff, being sympathetic to his employees, took this pledge to set an example to his employees. He further wrote in the tweet, “We encourage our Ohana — a Hawaiian word for ‘family’, to keep paying their own personal hourly workers like housekeepers & dog walkers.” Salesforce is pledging to its workforce Ohana not to conduct any significant lay offs over the next 90 days. We will continue to pay our hourly workers while our offices are closed. We encourage our Ohana to pay their own personal hourly workers like housekeepers & dog walkers.— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) March 25, 2020 Similar to other tech vendors, the coronavirus crisis has taken a toll on Salesforce’s market valuation as well. However, in the wake of this outbreak, apart from laying out an eight-point plan to deal with coronavirus, the company has also donated $1 million to UCSF’s COVID-19 Respond Fund and $500 thousand to the CDC Foundation’s emergency response fund. 8 step to address this crisis:1. Stay home. All citizens stay home for 20 day national lock down, review every 5 days for extension.2. Buy masks. Establish supply chain management system and hierarchy for PPE and make a direct nation state request.— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) March 25, 2020 The initiative was directly from Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, for his 49,000 employees — to stay outside of the unemployment circle.
In a recent tweet, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff promised that the cloud software giant will not conduct any significant layoffs for the next 90 days on the sidelines of COVID-19 pandemic threatening the economy and jobs. This official order doesn’t only include salaried employees, in fact, hourly workers around the world will also be receiving […]
In a recent tweet, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff promised that the company will not conduct significant layoffs due to COVID-19 pandemic.
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