Salesforce Conducts New Round of Layoffs Salesforce has launched another round of job cuts, reshaping key product teams even as it leans heavily into artificial intelligence and tries to reassure staff with comparatively generous severance.

The new layoffs began on Monday, June 8, when employees across the company started receiving notifications, according to people familiar with the process and a California regulatory filing. The filing, a WARN notice, listed 86 positions in the state across sales, general administration, and technology and product roles, with additional cuts reported in Washington and outside the US.

Early accounts indicated that the reductions hit teams tied directly to Salesforce’s strategic bets. Employees working on the Agentforce AI product, the Mulesoft integration tool, and the Marketing Cloud software were among those affected. This follows a smaller round of cuts in January that eliminated fewer than 1,000 roles, signaling an ongoing restructuring rather than a one-off move.

The timing coincides with growing investor anxiety that AI tools and agents could “replace some traditional software,” including Salesforce’s flagship customer relationship‑management platform, a fear that has contributed to the stock falling more than 30% this year. Salesforce’s response has been to accelerate its own AI offerings: although internal usage of Agentforce was previously reported as relatively low, the company recently said the product has surpassed $1 billion in annualized revenue.

As the cuts rolled out, attention inside and outside the company turned to how departing staff would be treated. Internal documents show that eligible U.S. workers can receive up to 30 weeks of severance, depending on level, tenure, and age — a package described as more generous than those recently provided by Oracle, Amazon, and Block. Directors receive 13 weeks of base pay, senior managers and below get 9 weeks, and all employees accrue an additional three weeks per year of service, capped at 26 weeks — or 30 weeks for those 60 and older, who also qualify for extended COBRA coverage.

Salesforce has not responded to requests for comment on either the scope of the layoffs or its long‑term workforce plans.

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