In an all-hands meeting described as boring, co-CEO Marc Benioff sidestepped employee questions regarding plans for layoffs, leading to vocal discontent in the company's chat channels.
Jerod Harris | Getty Images The meeting resulted in angry internal discussions among employees who felt ignored and dismissed. There are more screengrabs of the chats that the Insider has seen.
Staff took to a Slack channel intended for questions during the all-hands to point out that many questions had been left unaddressed, according to screenshots viewed by Insider. Benioff first announced the plan for layoffs in an email on Wednesday, saying the cuts will happen "mostly over the coming weeks."
According to Insider, one employee asked if Benioff was "filibustering 47,600+ employees right now by talking in circles and avoiding the topics at hand." "answer our questions" or "what are we even talking about?" were written by others.
It would be nice to know what the intent of a future all-hands call was suggested by a slack user.
"I'm sure many of the 10s of thousands of people on this call could be getting things done instead of listening to a conversation about the business," the person said.
There was anger over the nature of the call. One executive apologized in a meeting. According to one person present, the executive told anyone who hadn't seen the meeting not to watch.
Business Insider reports that the company has already notified up to 1,000 employees of pending cuts and that it was a surprise to many managers.
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