As companies tried to get workers back to in-person work last year, Salesforce and its CEO Marc Benioff criticized the idea of office mandates. Benioff argued in June that “office mandates are never going to work.” And in September, the company’s chief people officer Brent Hyder wrote in a company blog post that "at Salesforce, we’ve never had office mandates, and we never will.”
But as challenges mount for Salesforce, Benioff has changed his tune about remote work—at least when it comes to productivity.
