Salesforce.com To Cut 200 Jobs Despite Its Expectations To Make More Money

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 30, 2013 @02:49AM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

Dawn Kawamoto writes "Sometimes, making more money is not enough. Just ask Salesforce.com. The SaaS company announced it would cut 200 jobs, during its second quarter earnings call. The cuts are coming, despite the company raising its revenue forecast for its fiscal year. Salesforce.com says it's initiating the cuts to reduce overlapping roles and to (you guessed it) gain 'synergy', following its effort to meld its cloud marketing platform company ExactTarget with its social media market suite Marketing Cloud. And apparently this isn't the first time Salesforce has tried to squeeze out those nebulous 'synergies.' It reportedly cut 100 jobs in October, when it merged its social media platform companies Radian6 and Buddy Media."

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Re:Business tries to increase profits, new at 11 by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-30 03:14 · Score: 0, Troll

Exactly.
It's sad to see that Slashdot has become such a set of Corporate worshipers. Every cut, no matter how ridiculous it may be, brings out an army of people that say BULLSHIT like the O.P. here.
In less than a week there will be a whining post about how corporations can't get good help. Well, maybe you firing them after they help you succeed is part of the problem.
Hint: a lot of you people are taking corporations as if they have been handed down by God. They aren't.