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Trailblazing Women Summit Unpacks Gender Equality; Addresses COVID-19 Inequities
In honor of Women’s Month and International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, Salesforce hosted our third-annual Trailblazing Women Summit. The March 2 event featured luminary business leaders, authors, equality advocates, and thought leaders who came together to elevate the conversation around accelerating gender equality.
Our 2020 Annual Equality Update
Seen above: Salesforce employees participate in annual MLK march in San Francisco, January 2020 This year has challenged us in ways previously unimaginable. Together, we are facing the global pandemic and the intersecting economic crisis, alongside a reckoning with the long standing racial inequalities across our society. At Salesforce, we supported those disproportionately impacted by the crises, stood with the Black community, and took action on Racial Equality and Justice.
Salesforce Launches First Accessibility Support Team
At Salesforce, we believe that businesses can be powerful platforms for social change, working towards Equality for All. Disability Inclusion is fundamental to this belief. Developing accessible products that allow all individuals to succeed in the Salesforce ecosystem is a top priority.
Our Initial Quarterly Equality Update
This year has been incredibly challenging — as our world struggles with intersecting crises, the senseless and disproportionate loss of Black and Brown lives in the pandemic has amplified inequalities in our communities, demanding that each of us look within to see our own racism and bias and take action to bring change. As a Black man and tech leader, I grapple with what it means to lead in an industry with a long history of underrepresentation of minorities.
Q&A: How Trailhead Empowers Anyone to Learn New Skills for the New Normal
The global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformations that were once planned to take place over 1-2 years, into digital imperatives that must be executed overnight. Businesses are having to reimagine themselves, and this is creating the need for a workforce that’s prepared to tackle unique challenges as we move towards the new normal of work. The pandemic has made reskilling more important than ever before.
How Academy Bank and Salesforce Streamline the Lending Process
Academy Bank, part of a family of banks with over $3 billion in assets, helps individuals and businesses of any size with their banking and lending needs. Like many financial institutions, Academy Bank needed to mobilize quickly in order to prepare for the Paycheck Protections Program (PPP).
Taking Action for Racial Equality and Justice
Systemic racism and violence have affected the Black community for far too long. Across the nation and around the world people are grieving for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others who have been unjustly denied their fundamental rights to justice and even life itself. And, thisall in the context of a global pandemic that is disproportionately impacting communities of color. We believe businesses can be a powerful platform for social change.
Salesforce Announces Tony Prophet as Chief Equality and Recruiting Officer
Salesforce is pleased to announce Tony Prophet’s new role as Chief Equality and Recruiting Officer within its Employee Success organization. In his expanded role, Tony will help guide our global recruiting initiatives with an inclusive lens at every step, while continuing to lead the Office of Equality towards our mission of Equality for All.
The Power of Equality: How to Empower Your Employees and Drive Impact
We are in the heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution â surrounded by rapid surges of technologies that fundamentally transform the way we work, live, and interact. Now more than ever businesses must think about their responsibility to lead from the front on equality. Research shows that consumers believe companies have a responsibility to go beyond profit and make a positive impact on society. Theyâre also more likely to be loyal to companies that demonstrate strong ethics.
Salesforce's Marc Benioff unplugged for two weeks, and had a revelation that could change the tech industry
In early July 2018, Marc Benioff packed his iPhone and iPad into a FedEx envelope and mailed it to his summer home in Hawaii. The billionaire CEO of Salesforce then hopped on a plane out of San Francisco for a quiet two-week vacation across the Galapagos Islands, Bora Bora and Easter Island. He was unplugged and unreachable except by landline.
An interview with Salesforce’s Chief Equality Officer, Tony Prophet
We launched our Voices for Equity series in 2017 with the goal of bringing more voices into the conversation around gender equity. It was the next generation of our initial social listening campaign, Fix the Leaky Pipeline, that we launched in August 2017. As an expansion of our Voices for Equity series, we recently embarked on the first of what will become an ongoing series of Friday Facebook Live interview sessions.
As the immigration debate continues, remember H-1B workers
In the mornings, 12-year-old Jasmine packs up her backpack and heads off to school. Her favorite subject is computer science, and she earns good grades. She’s only in the seventh grade, but she imagines becoming an artist — or maybe a teacher. She loves volleyball, hamburgers and singing along to Demi Lovato on the radio. “In her heart, she’s an American,” says her mother. “This is the only country she’s ever known.” Except Jasmine (not her real name) was born in India.
Placing Humanity at the Heart of Business
By Tony Prophet for Salesforce Deborah Dugan, CEO of (RED), embodies the values-driven leadership CXOs are adopting in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this era where digital innovation will fundamentally shift our social behaviors, there’s an opportunity for technology to amplify positive societal change. Deborah is leading a company committed to not only fighting AIDS, but also inspiring other companies to find their purpose and align to the issues their customers care about.
A New Sustainability Milestone: Innovative Water Recycling System in Salesforce Tower
Today we announced that Salesforce Tower will feature the largest on-site water recycling system in a commercial high-rise building in the United States. This is a transformative milestone in our ongoing sustainability journey.
Salesforce Bellevue Debuts As One Of Washington's Best Workplaces!
All of us at Salesforce Bellevue know what a great workplace we have, and so it’s with great pride that I share that the Puget Sound Business Journal agrees: we’ve been named one of Washington’s Best Workplaces! As the local office leader and SVP of Infrastructure Engineering, it’s particularly humbling to rank so high considering the quality and variety of companies on the list. For me, it has been an exciting journey to get to this point.
Our Path to Equality: The Salesforce Annual Update
At Salesforce, we believe that the business of business is to make the world a better place. This higher purpose is best expressed in our drive to establish Equality for All, which means working together to create a world where everyone has equal rights, equal pay for equal work, equal access to education, and equal opportunities for success. It’s not only the right thing to do, it’s good for business.
"Proudly Me": What it Means to Bring Your Authentic Self to Work
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, a time when we celebrate and honor the LGBTQ community around the world. Equality is a core value at Salesforce and we are deeply committed to driving positive change within our company and across the communities we serve. A big part of that value is the right for every individual — regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ability, or any other facet of their identity — to feel welcome, included, valued, and proud.
Boosting tech for students and schools, breaking down language barriers and advancing mixed reality in construction — Weekend Reading, Jan. 27 - The Official Microsoft Blog
Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) There was a lot of good stuff happening this week at Microsoft in education, communication, accessibility and industry news. Let’s dig in! To drive breakthroughs in education, Microsoft announced Intune for Education, a new, simple tool to help schools set up devices in classrooms and not have to touch them again for the rest of the year.
Honoring the Legacy of MLK: Giving Back in the Age of Equality
On Monday the nation honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — who dedicated his life to fighting for justice and Equality for all people. Through peaceful activism he empowered so many and changed the course of history for this great nation. Dr. King reminded us that only love can conquer hate; he reminded us we need to walk before we can run; he reminded us that we cannot be silent about things that matter. Salesforce had the honor of hosting Rep.
Honoring the Legacy of MLK: Giving Back in the Age of Equality
On Monday the nation honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — who dedicated his life to fighting for justice and Equality for all people. Through peaceful activism he empowered so many and changed the course of history for this great nation. Dr. King reminded us that only love can conquer hate; he reminded us we need to walk before we can run; he reminded us that we cannot be silent about things that matter. Salesforce had the honor of hosting Rep.
Introducing Windows 10 Editions
Windows 10 is coming this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Today, we are excited to share more details on the Windows 10 Editions. We designed Windows 10 to deliver a more personal computing experience across a range of devices. An experience optimized for each device type, but familiar to all. Windows 10 will power an incredibly broad range of devices – everything from PCs, tablets, phones, Xbox One, Microsoft HoloLens and Surface Hub.
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