https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/salesforce-turmoil-continues-into-new-year-as-recent-layoffs-attest/ > Salesforce has been in the news a lot recently, and largely not for positive reasons. It has been an unusually dramatic and turbulent period for the cloud CRM leader, and the first of the year brought little relief: The company announced last week it was laying off 10% of its approximately 80,000 employees. > Layoff news is never good, but it comes on the heels of a slew of other negative reports. There have been key executive exits, like co-CEO Bret Taylor announcing he was leaving the company and Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield departing as soon as his two-year post-acquisition commitment expired.