{"id":991256,"date":"2026-02-11T08:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991256"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:41:09","slug":"salesforce-lays-off-nearly-1000-employees-in-early-2026-ahead-of-q4-earnings-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/salesforce-lays-off-nearly-1000-employees-in-early-2026-ahead-of-q4-earnings-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce lays off nearly 1,000 employees in early 2026 ahead of Q4 earnings report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud software provider Salesforce has cut fewer than 1,000 roles at the beginning of February 2026, according to a Business Insider report published on Monday, February 9, citing a person familiar with the matter. The affected roles included positions across marketing, product management, data analytics, and the company\u2019s Agentforce AI product, Business Insider reported, citing LinkedIn posts and conversations with two employees. <\/p>\n<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had previously acknowledged significant workforce reductions linked to the growing use of artificial intelligence. Speaking on a podcast in August last year, Benioff said the company had cut 4,000 customer support roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud software provider Salesforce has cut fewer than 1,000 roles at the beginning of February 2026, according to a Business Insider report published on Monday, February 9, citing a person familiar with the matter. The affected roles included positions across marketing, product management, data analytics, and the company\u2019s Agentforce AI product, Business Insider reported, citing LinkedIn posts and conversations with two employees. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had previously acknowledged significant workforce reductions linked to the growing use of artificial intelligence. Speaking on a podcast in August last year, Benioff said the company had cut 4,000 customer support roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}