Salesforce has announced its intention to hire 3,300 new employees.
The new recruits will work across its sales, engineering, and data cloud product departments.
That news marks a significant shift in Salesforce's thinking, considering the company has laid off 8,000 employees since the turn of the year.
Layoffs were continuing even last month, with the total redundancy figure crossing the ten percent mark initially touted in January.
Yet, in the past couple of weeks, Salesforce’s CEO, Marc Benioff, has looked to draw a line under the sand. During the business's latest earnings call, he stated:
We’re not planning any other major restructuring efforts in the company today like what we saw earlier this year. We hope that that is one and done and behind us.
Now, Salesforce’s CEO, Marc Benioff, told Bloomberg:
Our job is to grow the company and to continue to achieve great margins. We know we have to hire thousands of people.
This includes bringing back former employees, with the CEO stating how former employees were being welcomed back.
However, he did not rule out further layoffs altogether - just not on the same scale as earlier this year.
That may concern some, who interpret these stories as Salesforce adopting more of a ‘hire and fire’ culture.
Whether that mindset is real remains to be seen, yet recent internal survey results - leaked to the press - do suggest significant worries among Salesforce staff.
Yet, these came after a period of significant restructuring. Now, with the threat of further mass layoffs pushed to the side, Salesforce will likely hope to breathe new life into its Ohana culture.
