Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining other Silicon Valley tech giants in announcing a substantial shift in how it allows its employees to work.
Salesforce will also give employees more freedom to choose what their daily schedules look like.
The company joins other tech firms like Facebook and Microsoft that have announced permanent work-from-home policies in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“It no longer makes sense to expect employees to work an eight-hour shift and do their jobs successfully.”.
“In our always-on, always-connected world, it no longer makes sense to expect employees to work an eight-hour shift and do their jobs successfully,” Hyder adds.
In the blog post, Hyder defines the three different categories of work as flex, fully remote, and office-based.
“Our employees are the architects of this strategy, and flexibility will be key going forward,” Hyder writes. »