“The past is gone,” Benioff says. “We’ve created a whole new world, a new digital future, and you can see it playing out today.” He expects half or more of employees to work from home after the pandemic.
said Monday that he expects half or more of his company's employees to continue working from home after the pandemic.
Despite hefty real estate investments in recent years, including opening the 61-floor Salesforce Tower in San Francisco in 2018, Benioff said he has accepted that there's no return to the pre-Covid days. In an interview that aired on CNBC's "Closing Bell," Benioff said 50% to 60% of staffers will likely work from home, up from about 20% before the pandemic hit.
"The past is gone," Benioff said. "We've created a whole new world, a new digital future, and you can see it playing out today." Like the broader cloud software industry, Salesforce has powered through the pandemic, as companies became more reliant on tools that enabled their customers and employees to stay productive from remote environments. Salesforce'syear climbed 24% to $21.3 billion, keeping expansion roughly in line with its five-year average.
Benioff highlighted some of his company's projects with government organizations around the world tied directly to the pandemic. He said the company rebuilt New York City's vaccine management system and contact tracing system and put in similar systems in Japan and in Victoria, Australia.commercial customers and public-sector customers" and these are all "driving our business so aggressively," he said.
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