Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says his 2-hour all-hands meeting about layoffs was a bad idea: ‘We were
Salesforce’s year got off to a rough start when the company announced a second round of layoffs affecting 10% of its staffers, which the company fondly refers to as its “Ohana,” or family.
The day after Salesforce announced the cuts, CEO Marc Benioff led an all-hands meeting to explain the company’s decision. It didn’t go well. Employees criticized Benioff for being evasive during the meeting and thrusting the Ohana idea in a call that was expected to be about job losses.
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