Executives at Slack, the workplace chat app acquired by Salesforce in 2020, sought to allay employee concerns about Slack's future Thursday in the wake of recent layoffs, even as they acknowledged a rift between the two companies' corporate cultures.
In an hourlong internal Q&A with Slack employees Thursday, Slack's senior leadership team, including outgoing CEO Stewart Butterfield, addressed a series of questions that revealed staffers' anxiety and dissatisfaction about Slack's position within Salesforce, a $136 billion public company with more than 70,000 employees.
