Salesforce Layoffs Appear To Hit Slack, MuleSoft, Tableau

Salesforce – whose subsidiaries include Slack, MuleSoft and Tableau – had more than 73,500 employees in early 2022, which was an increase of 30 percent compared with 2021.

The 10 percent of job cuts planned for enterprise applications vendor Salesforce have also affected the enterprise applications vendor’s subsidiaries Slack, MuleSoft and Tableau.

Business Insider reported an unspecified number of layoffs at MuleSoft and a reduction of 10 percent of subsidiary Slack’s product and engineering organization.

And at least one Tableau employee posted about a layoff on the social media network LinkedIn.

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Salesforce Layoffs Hit Slack, MuleSoft, Tableau

CRN has reached out to Slack and Salesforce for comment.

San Francisco-based Salesforce announced this week that it plans to cut about 7,000 employees over the next few weeks due to hiring too many employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Salesforce – whose subsidiaries include Slack, MuleSoft and Tableau – had more than 73,500 employees in early 2022, which was an increase of 30 percent compared with 2021.

Slack had more than 2,500 full-time employees in 2021, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. MuleSoft had 3,400-plus employees as of 2021, according to an archived image of MuleSoft’s website. Tableau had about 4,000 employees as of 2019.

Salesforce informed about 1,000 employees of terminations on Wednesday, according to Business Insider.

A level two software engineer and a partner engineer from Slack posted on social media network LinkesIn about getting laid off.

A global partner marketing director for Tableau posted on LinkedIn about getting laid off.

And a MuleSoft customer success regional vice president said in a LinkedIn post that most of his team and some peers were laid off.

Employees of companies including ServiceNow, Genentech, FanDuel and Dave posted to LinkedIn encouraging laid off workers to apply for open jobs with their companies.

News of the Salesforce layoffs hitting Slack comes shortly after Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced he was leaving the company.

Other vendors with recently reported plans for layoffs include HP, Intel, Elastic, Aqua Security, AvePoint and N-able.