Company Lays Off 8,000 While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10 Million a Year to Sit Around

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"It's an unfortunate part that you have to say goodbye to folks who, in many cases, are your friends and you have relationships with," Benioff, an original co-founder of the firm, told theA fair point, at least on the surface. Present-day Silicon Valley, which had previously enjoyed a decade of relatively non-stop growth and endless employee perks, is now attempting to grapple with post-pandemic slowdowns as well as a rapidly changing industry landscape.

At Salesforce, massive amounts of company resources seem to be going to exceedingly peculiar places, including — but, the Hollywood star was being paidA sane financial decision to make for a $160 billion dollar company, we're sure.It's been no secret that McConaughey has close ties to the firm — he's spoken at Salesforce events, attended company meetings , and has even appeared in the outfit's Super Bowl commercials.

Paying McConaughey millions to hang out isn't the only Salesforce issue. The still-not-Hawaiian Benioff is well-known for lavishing his employees with wild perks, which included hosting wildly expensive celebrity-headlined conferences and opulent wellness retreats. In any case, our thoughts are with the laid-off Salesforcers. Things will one day be alright, alright, alright.

 

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Yeaaaah, about that... And 8K seems a very conservative, very *public* number.

10M vs the at least 500M that's saved from the layoffs. That seems relevant but missing from the article

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