TONE DEAF

Report: Billionaire Benioff Bungles Salesforce Layoffs Meeting

“The lack of awareness as to what we’re actually concerned about... is astonishing,” one worker complained.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s address to the whole company a day after mass layoffs began was a “tone deaf” display in which he cracked jokes but dodged questions from employees, Insider reports. The company announced this week that it plans to slash 10 percent of its 73,000-person work force, and it has already shown at least 1,000 the door. Benioff was reportedly late to the all-hands, made a crack about ruining the chief technical officer’s birthday, and waxed nostalgic about a round of layoffs two decades ago. “The lack of awareness as to what we’re actually concerned about, and the complete avoidance of Q&A questions, is astonishing,” one employee complained on Slack after the two-hour meeting.