Salesforce has laid off 50 more employees in Ireland, taking its total job cuts beyond the ten percent announced in January.
Bloomberg first broke the news, suggesting that the cuts will impact customer success and sales teams – trimming Salesforce’s employee base in Ireland by five percent.
A Salesforce spokesperson reaffirmed that the layoffs are separate from those announced in January, with staff notified on Wednesday.
However, like the January layoffs, Salesforce has attributed the cuts to its renewed profitability focus.
Indeed, the spokesperson told Bloomberg:
[The layoffs are] part of an ongoing effort to ensure we always have the right resources in place.
Salesforce has double-down on this motif since CEO Marc Benioff’s admission the company grew too fast during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indeed, during that time, Salesforce reportedly quadrupled its global staff – from 17,000 to 73,000 people worldwide.
Yet, with the CRM vendor recently reporting its quarter of slowest revenue growth in 13 years and activist investors making their presence felt, cutbacks may have proven a necessary evil.
Body Blows to the "Ohana" Company Culture
Some may worry about how the continued job cuts may influence Salesforce’s Ohana culture – alongside the "orders" some employees have faced to return to the office.
These concerns appear justified as the first cracks in the culture appeared after the "abysmal" results of an internal survey leaked online, completed by 57,000 employees.
Now, verified employees are taking to public forums and speaking out.
Consider Blind, a verified employee community for large tech companies. There, a current Salesforce team member wrote:
Culture has changed greatly in the past two years. Some of the people who are left are bad managers, and leaders and this has changed the core of the company and the culture.
Other comments from the past couple of weeks include: "Company has changed since layoffs," "Salesforce is changing," and "Terrible culture."
