- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is asking CEOs to take a 90-day “no layoff pledge” to help employees get through the COVID-19 pandemic
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is asking CEOs to take a 90-day “no-layoff pledge” to help employees get through the COVID-19 pandemic. Benioff also provided an eight-point plan for dealing with COVID-19.
Here is Benioff’s eight-point plan that he wrote earlier this week:
1. Stay home – All citizens stay home for 20-day national lockdown, review every 5 days for extension.
2. Buy masks – Establish supply chain management system and hierarchy for PPE and make a direct nation state request.
3. Get medicines – Urgently ramp up drug production for therapeutics for anyone who becomes symptomatic and for post-exposure prophylaxis. Keep a database of every patient interact & response. Provide Fed guidelines for treatment to treat before results and post-exposure prophylaxis criteria.
4. Accelerate vaccines – Develop multiple vaccine strategy landscape and concurrently develop production capacity and surrogate broader tests.
5. Figure out who had it already and is safe. And Accelerate development of IgG test for prior exposure.
6. Test everyone. Release workers who are OK. Develop a plan for this with antibody titers to be on front line exposure positions.
7. Every CEO takes a 90-day “no lay off” pledge.
8. Love everyone.
“Salesforce is pledging to its workforce Ohana not to conduct any significant layoffs over the next 90 days. We will continue to pay our hourly workers while our offices are closed. We encourage our Ohana to pay their own personal hourly workers like housekeepers & dog walkers,” wrote Benioff in a follow-up tweet.
Salesforce is donating $1.5 million to the city of San Francisco in order to help deal with the crisis. And company employees have been donating masks and the company is offering free access for its Health Cloud product for emergency response teams.
As of January 31, Salesforce reported over 49,000 employees.
