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SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
Starts 09/02/2025CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoStated as firm: California EDD's WARN report lists Salesforce, Inc., 415 Mission Street, notice date 09/02/2025, 262 permanent layoffs effective 11/03/2025; the SF Examiner^[1]: "The notice of the cuts, which the company filed Tuesday with the state Employment Development Department".
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Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
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Business09/24/2026@TechDesk
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SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
Starts 10/01/2025CONFIRMED 84% CONFIDENCE358 days agoSalesforce's^[3][4] Regrello^[2] story carries the editor's note 'Salesforce completed its acquisition of Regrello on October 1, 2025'; the 10-Q says 'In October 2025, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Regrello Corp.'
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Salesforce Agrees to Acquire Agentic Marketing Firm Qualified
SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
Starts 12/17/2025 9:00PMCONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE281 days agoSalesforce's^[1] story 'Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Qualified' was published on 17 December 2025 (1:00 pm PT) and says Salesforce 'today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Qualified'.
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$1.2B
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Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
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SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
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Salesforce's Fourth Round of San Francisco Layoffs Takes Effect
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Salesforce Makes Agentforce 360 Generally Available
SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
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Dreamforce 2026 Launches AIforce at the Moscone Center
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09/15/2026 - 09/17/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE9 days agoStated as firm, per moscone.com^[1]: "September 15 - September 17, 2026 | Moscone North, South, and West"; The Letter Two's^[4] live blog: "Salesforce hosts its 2026 customer conference in San Francisco from Sept. 15 to 17."
Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026 filled Moscone North, South and West for three days, where Marc Benioff unveiled AIforce, bringing Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, Slack and other tools, with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Nvidia's Jensen Huang on stage.
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Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk
Salesforce Commits to Hiring 1,000 AI-Native Graduates and Interns
Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
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Software09/24/2026@TechDesk
Salesforce Replaces Its Editions With Core, Advanced and Max
Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
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New Core ($195), Advanced ($395) and Max ($550 per user a month) editions of Agentforce Sales, Service and Industries bundle Slack, Tableau Next, security and Flex Credits into one purchase.
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CNBC^[1]: Benioff revealed the cuts "during an interview published Friday on The Logan Bartlett Show podcast"; the episode's YouTube^[5] upload is stamped 2025-08-29 03:00 PDT.

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Benioff Says AI Agents Let Salesforce Cut 4,000 Customer Support Roles

On a podcast Marc Benioff said Salesforce had cut its support staff from about 9,000 to 5,000 because AI agents now handle half of customer conversations.

On The Logan Bartlett Show, released on 29 August 2025, Marc Benioff said: "I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads"^[1][5]
He said half of Salesforce's customer conversations were now handled by AI agents and half by humans, and that he had moved support headcount into sales to increase "distribution capacity"^[3][4]
Salesforce said in a statement on 2 September that, because of Agentforce, support cases had declined and it no longer needed to actively backfill support engineer roles, and that it had redeployed hundreds of employees into professional services, sales and customer success^[1][3]
Salesforce later wrote that Agentforce on help.salesforce.com had handled 2.6 million customer conversations with a 63% resolution rate^[2]

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cnbc.com/2025/09/02/salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000-layoffs-because-i-need-less-heads-with-ai.html
cnbc.com· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts Aug 29, 2025· 45% of score
CNBC: Benioff revealed the cuts "during an interview published Friday on The Logan Bartlett Show podcast"; the episode's YouTube^[5] upload is stamped 2025-08-29 03:00 PDT.
[2]85%
How Salesforce Is Reshaping Its Workforce in the Age of AI
salesforce.com· Published Apr 29, 2026· 25% of score
Salesforce's own account: Agentforce on help.salesforce.com handled 2.6 million conversations at a 63% resolution rate; hundreds of support engineers redeployed and other roles not backfilled.
[3]88%
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI has already replaced 4,000 jobs
sfchronicle.com· Published Sep 2, 2025· 10% of score
Episode released Friday; 9,000 to about 5,000 support heads; heads moved into sales; Salesforce^[2] statement on not backfilling support engineer roles; about 76,000 staff worldwide.
[4]80%
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says his company has cut 4,000 customer service jobs as AI steps in
fortune.com· Published Sep 2, 2025· 10% of score
Fortune's report of the same podcast remarks and the 50/50 split between AI agents and humans.
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Marc Benioff Predicts Half of Conversations Will be With AI Agents Next Year (The Logan Bartlett Show)
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The episode itself, uploaded 29 Aug 2025 03:00 PDT by The Logan Bartlett Show.^[1]

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Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk
Salesforce Lays Off 262 at Its San Francisco Headquarters
SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
Starts 09/02/2025CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoStated as firm: California EDD's WARN report lists Salesforce, Inc., 415 Mission Street, notice date 09/02/2025, 262 permanent layoffs effective 11/03/2025; the SF Examiner^[1]: "The notice of the cuts, which the company filed Tuesday with the state Employment Development Department".
Salesforce told California it would permanently cut 262 jobs at Salesforce Tower, days after Marc Benioff said AI had let him shrink customer support from 9,000 people to about 5,000.
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Business09/24/2026@TechDesk
Salesforce Names Six New Leaders After Its Agentforce, Slack and Tableau Chiefs Exit
Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
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Business09/24/2026@TechDesk
Salesforce Completes Its Acquisition of Regrello
SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
Starts 10/01/2025CONFIRMED 84% CONFIDENCE358 days agoSalesforce's^[3][4] Regrello^[2] story carries the editor's note 'Salesforce completed its acquisition of Regrello on October 1, 2025'; the 10-Q says 'In October 2025, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Regrello Corp.'
Salesforce closed its $818 million purchase of Regrello, whose AI process-automation technology it later relaunched as Agentforce Operations for supply-chain and back-office work.
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SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
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Salesforce signed a deal for Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent that turns company websites into conversations that qualify and book inbound leads, to strengthen Agentforce Sales and Marketing.
$1.2B
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Conference09/24/2026@TechDesk
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SalesforceGeorge R Moscone Convention Center, Howard Street, Moscone North + South, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
10/14/2025 - 10/16/2025CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE345 days agoStated as firm, per the Salesforce^[1][6] Ventures guide (salesforceventures.com^[2]): "GUIDE TO DREAMFORCE October 14-16, 2025 San Francisco, CA"; TechCrunch^[4]: "its annual Dreamforce customer conference that kicks off October 14".
Salesforce's 23rd Dreamforce filled the Moscone Center for three days of more than 1,500 sessions, built around the newly released Agentforce 360 and Marc Benioff's pitch for the 'Agentic Enterprise'.
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Business09/24/2026@TechDesk
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Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
Starts 08/18/2025 8:00PMCONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoSalesforce's^[1] story 'Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Regrello' was published on 18 August 2025 (1:00 pm PT) and says Salesforce 'has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Regrello'.
Salesforce signed a deal for Regrello, an AI-native tool that turns documents and business data into agentic workflows, to add agentic process automation to Agentforce and Slack.
$818M
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Business09/24/2026@TechDesk
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SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
Starts 04/01/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE176 days agoSalesforce's^[3] Qualified story carries the editor's note 'Salesforce completed its acquisition of Qualified on April 1, 2026'; the 10-Q says 'In April 2026, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Qualified.com, Inc.'
Salesforce closed its purchase of Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent, for consideration it valued at $1.2 billion, mostly cash.
$1.2B
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Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk
Salesforce's Fourth Round of San Francisco Layoffs Takes Effect
Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
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Salesforce's cut of 74 jobs at its 415 Mission Street headquarters, its fourth round of San Francisco layoffs since September 2025, is scheduled to begin in early October.
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Salesforce Makes Agentforce 360 Generally Available
SalesforceSalesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
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SalesforceGeorge R Moscone Convention Center, Howard Street, Moscone North + South, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States
09/15/2026 - 09/17/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE9 days agoStated as firm, per moscone.com^[1]: "September 15 - September 17, 2026 | Moscone North, South, and West"; The Letter Two's^[4] live blog: "Salesforce hosts its 2026 customer conference in San Francisco from Sept. 15 to 17."
Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026 filled Moscone North, South and West for three days, where Marc Benioff unveiled AIforce, bringing Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, Slack and other tools, with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Nvidia's Jensen Huang on stage.
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Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk
Salesforce Commits to Hiring 1,000 AI-Native Graduates and Interns
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Salesforce Replaces Its Editions With Core, Advanced and Max
Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
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New Core ($195), Advanced ($395) and Max ($550 per user a month) editions of Agentforce Sales, Service and Industries bundle Slack, Tableau Next, security and Flex Credits into one purchase.
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