Bonus episode: The gross Salesforce Slack message

Asking for a friend. 😇

As we said back in the day: eww, grody.

Marc Benioff of Salesforce sent the following Slack message to employees on 12/16:

How do we increase the productivity of our employees at salesforce? New employees (hired during the pandemic in 2021 & 2022) are especially facing much lower productivity. Is this a reflection of our office policy? Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture? Are our managers not directly addressing productivity with their teams? Are we not investing enough time into our new employees? Do managers focus enough time and energy on onboarding new employees & achieving productivity? is coming as a new employee to salesforce too overwhelming? Asking for a friend. (Im leaving this open ended to get the broadest level of response.) -from CNBC

I sort of expect Maximus Decimus Meridius to pop up from Gladiator and shout, "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"

Is this the beginning stage of the hybrid hell-of-half-measures model transitioning to full on RTO?

Links I discuss in this episode:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/bret-taylor-steps-down-as-co-chair-and-ceo-of-salesforce/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/report-indicates-friction-prior-to-bret-taylors-resignation-from-salesforce/?cx_testId=6&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/16/marc-benioff-says-newer-salesforce-employees-are-less-productive.html

https://doctorow.medium.com/this-inflation-is-different-248b8538371b

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