March 16, 2020
An Update on Our Offices in North America and EMEA
All of our employees around the globe have been strongly encouraged to work from home. Given the escalation of local governments’ guidance within some of our communities, we are moving to a "hard close" of our offices in North America and EMEA through at least April 15. And we will continue to pay our vendor hourly service providers, who are an important part of our family.
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March 15, 2020
An Update on Our Global Workforce Plans
We are now strongly encouraging all employees across Argentina, Australia, India, Mexico, and New Zealand to work remotely. We’ve made this decision based on guidance from local leaders and governments and in service to protecting our employees, their families and our communities. During this time, we will continue to pay our vendor hourly service providers, who are an important part of our family.
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March 14, 2020
Supporting San Francisco and our Communities Across California
To support the community in which Salesforce is headquartered, the company will donate $1.5M to the City of San Francisco’s Give2SF fund to support its emergency response to the coronavirus crisis.
And in an open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joined 170 California business leaders to respectfully request that the State of California offer free drive-thru or walk-up COVID-19 testing in every county within 48 hours.
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March 13, 2020
An Update on Connections and Upcoming Salesforce Events
At Salesforce, Connections has always been a special event for us to share the latest marketing, commerce and service innovations and come together with the Trailblazer community.
But as the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve, we recognize our responsibility to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our customers, partners, employees and communities above all else. After careful consideration, we’ve decided there will be no physical event for Connections and we will instead reimagine the conference as a virtual experience that will deliver a full program of inspiring sessions and educational content. We are disappointed to miss seeing everyone in Chicago, but we know this is the right path forward for the community.
Salesforce.org’s Higher Ed Summit as well as Salesforce World Tours and Basecamps in April will also be replaced with new virtual experiences. World Tour Toronto and World Tour London will be postponed to later in the year.
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March 12, 2020
Our Latest Workforce Plans in North America and EMEA
We are strongly encouraging all employees across the United States, Canada, as well as Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) to work remotely, including all European countries, the United Kingdom, Israel, and Morocco. We’ve made this decision based on guidance from local leaders and governments, and in service to protecting our employees, their families and our communities. During this time, we will continue to pay our vendor hourly service providers, who are an important part of our family.
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March 11, 2020
Update from Marc Benioff
Salesforce Chair and Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff details Salesforce's latest efforts to help those affected by the COVID-19 outbreak here.
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March 8, 2020
Doing Our Part in New York State
Along with our employees based in Washington State and California, we are strongly encouraging all employees across New York State to work remotely for the month of March. We’ve made this decision out of an abundance of caution and in service to protecting our employees, their families and our communities. During this time, we will continue to pay our vendor hourly service providers, who are an important part of our family.
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March 7, 2020
Doing Our Part in California
Along with our employees in Washington State, we are strongly encouraging all employees across California to work remotely for the month of March. We’ve made this decision out of an abundance of caution and in service to protecting our employees, their families and our communities. During this time, we will continue to pay our vendor hourly service providers, who are an important part of our family.
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March 4, 2020
Doing Our Part in Washington State
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread, we have a heightened awareness at Salesforce of our responsibility to our employees, customers, and partners. This includes doing our part to to help prevent further outbreaks.
Out of an abundance of caution and aligned with King County recommendations, we are encouraging all Salesforce and Tableau employees based in our Seattle, Kirkland, and Bellevue offices to work remotely for the month of March.
You can learn more about the other precautionary measures we’re taking here.
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March 2, 2020
For the Safety and Wellbeing of You and Those Around You
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread around the world, we have a heightened awareness at Salesforce of our responsibility to our employees, customers, and partners during this important time. Each one of us has a role to play in preparing ourselves and our families for potential disruptions, and upholding our civic duty to help prevent further outbreaks. If we each do our part, we can help lessen the risk for everyone. We can save lives.
While this is a developing situation, we are implementing initial safety precautions for the month of March, including prohibiting cross border travel, restricting all but the most critical domestic travel, replacing our in-person customer events with digital experiences, and enhancing our office protocols to ensure we provide the healthiest work environment possible. We are monitoring the situation around the clock and will continue to update our approach as information becomes available from the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and local authorities.
Certainly these steps are designed to protect our employees, customers, and partners, but we also know that the steps we collectively take are helping our society. We’ve asked our employees to stay home if they are experiencing symptoms of illness of any kind and we are encouraging everyone to get a flu shot. These preparations are important on an individual level but they can also have an impact on our society, such as our elderly neighbors, our hospital caretakers, and those who lack the resources or time to prepare themselves, all of whom may be counting on us during this time.
We'll provide further updates here as things evolve. In the meantime, thank you for doing your part to ensure the safety and wellbeing of you and those around you.
