The Bay Area company revealed plans to chop potentially thousands of jobs worldwide within weeks.
Salesforce revealed plans to chop potentially thousands of jobs worldwide within weeks, the company said Wednesday, marking a grim start to 2023 for a tech sector that’s already reeling from layoffs.
“We’ve made the very difficult decision to reduce our workforce by about 10 percent, mostly over the coming weeks,” Mark Benioff, Salesforce’s chief executive officer, wrote in the letter to the company’s employees. San Francisco-based Salesforce, as of January 2022, employed 73,541 workers worldwide, the company stated in an SEC filing in early 2022.
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