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Kylie Robison

1,900 employees disappear from Salesforce’s all-employee Slack channel as layoffs leave those still with jobs confused and upset

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (Credit: Simon Dawson—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Business software giant Salesforce is slowly making good on its promise to cut thousands of employees while leaving the remaining staff largely in the dark and grumbling in internal Slack channels.

The company, which said in early January it would lay off 10% of its staff over the coming weeks, or about 8,000 people, made its latest cuts today involving an unknown number of mostly sales staff. A Salesforce spokesperson confirmed that the latest round was part of the previously announced reductions.

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