Leftist software giant Salesforce announced plans to lay off about 8,000 employees amid continued economic downturn.
Notoriously woke CEO Marc Benioff wrote in a letter to employees that the company will be closing down a number of offices.
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“As our revenue accelerated through the pandemic, we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we’re now facing, and I take responsibility for that,” Benioff said. “The environment remains challenging and our customers are taking a more measured approach to their purchasing decisions.”
The job cuts are another blow to San Francisco’s struggling downtown core and office market, where vacancy is a record-high 27 percent.
Salesforce previously let go of hundreds of salespeople late last year. Some of the company’s senior executives are also departing, including Bret Taylor, the co-CEO, who will leave at the end of the month, as well as Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, who will also be leaving this month.
In September, Benioff threatened to move his software company’s operations out of Republican-controlled states if their regulations, particularly those pertaining to abortion, did not conform to his liberal viewpoint.
Salesforce, which was also the company behind the RNC’s email provider, had previously prohibited then-President Donald Trump and Republicans from using “our services in any way that could lead to violence” after the events of January 6, 2021. The Trump campaign was then prohibited from being able to send emails.
During the cloud computing giant’s annual investor meeting in 2020, Benioff stood in silence after being asked a question about his company’s lack of policy on political tolerance and viewpoint discrimination.
This comes as tech companies continue to cut jobs as the global economic outlook continues to worsen. Facebook, Lyft, HP, and Amazon are among the other businesses that have made layoff announcements. Amazon also recently announced that it would be laying off more than 18,000 employees, accounting for 5 percent of the company’s workforce.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo sent to employees that the layoffs will help the company pursue long-term opportunities with a stronger cost structure. But he called the cuts a “difficult decision.”
