Salesforce laying off 1,000 during hiring push

Salesforce reduces 1,000 employees, while in the middle of employment they are 2,000 new ones.

The release of more than 1% of the company employee was the first to report to Bloomberg, who cited an anonymous source “familiar with the question”. Salesforce has not yet commented on it. According to the report, it is unclear which departments lead the biggest hits.

The released employees will reportedly be able to apply for new positions in the company, and there seems to be a lot of openings. In December, the company said she had planned to hire 2,000 new sales representatives for demand for her AI products.

The company continues everything in AI. In September, the CEO Marc Benioff discovered the Salesforce agent, saying that it is for people who do not know much about using AI or the construction of bots.

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“They won’t have to be a llm expert, they won’t have to understand all these deep options that you should know that you are a computer scientist,” he said. This is “Ai for the others.”

Earlier this month, the company has released a version of agentForce designed for retail, with a library of pre-built agent skills, including order management, appointment, managing guidance and loyalty management.

Despite the release, Salesforce’s revenues are still on the rise, sales increased an average of 9% in the first three quarters of its fiscal 2025. This suggests that these reductions in the job are more related to switching priorities than about monetary problems.

Salesforce will report their next round of earnings on February 26.