Salesforce.com to create 12,000 jobs over the next year, including 4,000 positions in the coming six months, Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff said in a tweet. The decision comes during the COVID-19 outbreak, it has forced people to stay and work from home, the company's online business software that supports remote work and e-commerce has seen significant demand.
Benioff twitted, "Join our 54K employee strong Ohana defining the future of software. Salesforce is the world’s fastest growing Top 5 enterprise software company. Send your resume to jobs@salesforce.com."
The announcement comes just a few weeks after the business software company reportedly began notifying employees of its intentions to cut 1,000 jobs just a day after reporting record sales and raising its full-year guidance.
The company said sales grew 29% to $5.15 billion in the most recent quarter, beating Wall Street’s expectation of $4.87 billion in revenue, according to analysts surveyed by FactSet. Salesforce said it generated a $2.85 per-share profit, in part based on accounting adjustments.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic's impact on cloud service providers, Salesforce, lifted its full-year outlook, expecting sales in the current financial year that runs through the end of January to increase to between $20.7 billion and $20.8 billion. It previously cut its outlook to around $20 billion in sales from as high as $21.1 billion.
The company expects to generate $5.24 billion to $5.25 billion in sales in the current quarter, above the $5.02 billion forecast by analysts.
