{"id":42168,"date":"2021-06-08T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=0200e1f1597f2aac6152587fbe739ebe"},"modified":"2021-06-08T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:08:03","slug":"salesforce-expects-at-least-half-of-employees-to-continue-working-remotely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/salesforce-expects-at-least-half-of-employees-to-continue-working-remotely\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce expects at least half of employees to continue working remotely"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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8 Jun, 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At least half of\u00a0Salesforce<\/a>\u00a0employees will continue to work from home after the pandemic, according to the\u00a0CRM<\/a>\u00a0services provider’s CEO Marc Benioff.<\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0CNBC<\/a><\/em>, Benioff said that “maybe 50%, 60% [of staff] are going to be working at home”, which is considerably more than prior to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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\n“Before this all started, 20% of our workers worked at home,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Salesforce has had a notably lax attitude towards its employees returning to the office, with the company’s president and chief people officer Brent Hyder recently stating that\u00a0“the 9-to-5 workday is dead”<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In February, the company announced that it would provide its employees with the choice of three working models; flex, fully remote and office-based. Those opting for the ‘flex’ model will spend between one and three days a week in the office, mostly for\u00a0collaborative<\/a>\u00a0projects, customer meetings and presentations.<\/p>\n

Although Benioff said that he “won’t be ringing any bell saying: alright everybody get back in the office”, he expects staff to “come back” eventually. However, he noted\u00a0that the working experience has been inadvertently changed over the course of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

“The past is gone,” he said. “We’ve created a whole new world, a new digital future, and you can see it playing out today.”<\/p>\n

Other tech companies embracing remote working include\u00a0Dropbox, Panaseer, HomeHero, and 3RSP<\/a>, with the latter’s\u00a0business<\/a>\u00a0development director Stuart Melling telling\u00a0IT Pro\u00a0<\/em>that he “can’t imagine why we’d force people to return just for the sake of it”.<\/p>\n

However, not all companies seem to agree. Last week,\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0employees received a company memo requesting their presence in the office for at least three days a week from September, which was met with protest. According to an\u00a0internal letter obtained by\u00a0The Verge<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0staff responded by asking the company to reconsider its stance and let the workers experience the same level of flexibility as during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

“We would like to take the opportunity to communicate a growing concern among our colleagues, that Apple’s remote\/location-flexible work policy, and the communication around it, have already forced some of our colleagues to quit,” they said in the letter.<\/p>\n

“Without the inclusivity that flexibility brings, many of us feel we have to choose between either a combination of our families, our well-being, and being empowered to do our best work,\u00a0or<\/em>\u00a0being a part of Apple.” <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

8 Jun, 2021 <\/p>\n

At least half of\u00a0Salesforce\u00a0employees will continue to work from home after the pandemic, according to the\u00a0CRM\u00a0services provider’s CEO Marc Benioff.
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