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Is it very hard to believe that (1) some single digit % of employees (and even entire divisions) at a massive corporation – one that nearly doubled in size during the pandemic – aren't adding a lot of value and (2) a flashy marketing campaign can bring a company new customers?

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8k of 25k is not some "single digit %"

u sound like u get paid for salesforce-pr

25k what? Salesforce had over 80k employees at the time of the layoffs.

Well all the numbers I've ever seen have been just shy of 80, and 8/80 = 10%, which is 2 digits. So there are two possibilities. One possibility, I guess, is that both your and parent are using some sort of counting system we'll call "base b" where 25 base b = 80 base 10 and in which 8/80 base b < 10% base b. The other, more likely, possibility is that you're intentionally under-stating the scale of the layoffs and being oddly defensive.

Enjoy your Salesforce stock grant, I guess ;-)

The base b here would be base 37.5 :)

8/25 is 32%, no?

25k is just what they hired during covid

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