The principles include observing local government guidance where their offices are located, getting on-the-ground perspectives from Salesforce management, and analyzing the health care system capacity in each region. To craft a comprehensive plan, Salesforce has laid out “a set of guiding principles” that can be applied location by location.

The company has more than 50,000 employees with offices in more than 160 locations around the world - a big undertaking for strategizing a reopening plan when each country, state and even city has differing mandates. ( Note: Salesforce is an NPR financial supporter.)ĭata from recent employee surveys found a majority of Salesforce employees that were surveyed say they do want to come back and work in the office, but not all five days of the workweek, she says. That's been a big awakening for us - something that we, I don't think anybody, really expected,” Salesforce executive Elizabeth Pinkham says. “It's kind of incredible with everyone working from home, how successful that's been. Salesforce, a software and cloud-computing company based in San Francisco, is mulling over the idea of work-from-home flexibility in the future. If you normally work in an office, you've likely been thinking a lot about what the future of your work world will look like.Ĭompanies like Twitter and Square have announced they're allowing employees to work from home - forever. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) This article is more than 2 years old. Salesforce Tower reflects a neighboring building in downtown San Francisco, California on February 6, 2019.

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