Salesforce is implementing a strict return-to-office policy for employees around the country.
“Select employees in sales, workplace services, data center engineering and onsite support technicians under the chief information officer will be required to come to the office four to five days a week, effective Oct. 1,” an internal memo read, per the New York Post.
Other departments, including legal, product, and marketing will be mandated to an “office-flex” schedule, which means that they are required to come back into the office a minimum of three days per week.
Some engineering roles are required to return to the office for only 10 days per quarter.
“We all know we are more productive at home,” one employee wrote on Reddit. “I think they are just trying to come to terms with the numbers and freaking out.”
“As much as I don’t want to admit it, there are days where going into the office is super helpful,” another argued, while some called the decision a “step back” for the company.
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The decision comes after Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in 2022 who said that return-to-office mandates were simply “never going to work.”
According to the San Francisco Standard, Salesforce will also be rolling out an “internal dashboard” to track employee badge scans in its U.S. offices beginning in August. All employees will have access to this data to promote “full visibility” of the company’s tracking policy.
“Salesforce has always been a hybrid work company,” a Salesforce spokesperson told the outlet. “Our guidelines focus on in-person connection, while also recognizing the value of working away from the office.”
Earlier this month, Salesforce quietly laid off roughly 300 employees.
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“Like any healthy business, we continuously assess whether we have the right structure in place to best serve our customers and fuel growth areas,” a spokesperson for the company told Bloomberg following the report. “In some cases that leads to roles being eliminated.”
Salesforce joins Amazon in cracking down on tracking employees’ activity in the office to comply with new mandates and discourage “coffee badging.”
Salesforce did not immediately respond to Entrepreneur’s request for comment.
