United States: Salesforce harnesses work.com application to manage return of staff to the office

San Francisco-based software company Salesforce is to gradually reopen its US sites from next month. If they are willing and have been vaccinated, employees in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Irvine, California, will be the first to return to the office. In order to ensure that this return is as safe and as secure as possible, Salesforce will make use of work.com, an in-house application that manages the flow of staff within its offices. Remote work will nevertheless be extended until at least 31 December 2021, allowing those who wish to continue working from home to do so.
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From the start of May, Salesforce staff on the West Coast of the United States will be able to return to the office. Salesforce has already reopened about 20 of its locations around the world, most of which are in the Asia Pacific region. Its office in Sydney, Australia, for example, has been welcoming back hundreds of employees since August 2020. The aim is to gradually reopen premises, “depending on health regulations and local situations”, explains Olivier Nguyen Van Tan, VP marketing for South Europe, Middle East & Africa.

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