Salesforce Tower is seen in downtown San Francisco, California on February 6, 2019. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images). Posted on 02/09/2021 3:46:51 PM PST by Vendome
Salesforce, the cloud-based software company that employs 54,000 people globally, announced Tuesday that it will allow most employees to work from home indefinitely, even after the pandemic ends.
The news comes about two years after the completion of San Francisco’s massive Salesforce Tower, a 1,070-foot-tall skyscraper located in the city’s downtown area.
Salesforce Tower is seen in downtown San Francisco, California on February 6, 2019. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images). Salesforce will offer employees three “ways of working”:
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I've had it with the Polly Anna types "San Francisco will come back"
duh kcuF it will. Well, maybe in 15 years.
Many of the businesses that existed to support downtown are no longer necessary.
Was in 101 California building yesterday and the events manager for a very large law firm agrees that it will be very difficult for San Francisco to come back.
They are only coming back with 20% of staff and will likely terminate their lease when it comes up.
I've spoken with many firms downtown and they say they will return at 10-25% capacity but, everyone is working well from home.
The shoe cobbler isn't going to be able survive on a few hundred people going into several building when tens of thousands had been going before and are not coming back.
The bagel shop can't just stay open and hope customers from Embarcadreo 1, 2, 3 and 4 will return and fill their now empty store.
The Financial District in San Francisco is burnt toast.
The guys that sold 5 gallon bottled water are no longer necessary.
Peet's and Starbucks have closed a few stores and I expect CVS and Walgreens in a few key areas will follow.
Law firms, CPA's and Financial Services are also moving their offices out of the city to Marin County and don't expect to ever return.
I don't see how San Francisco returns anytime soon and the drug addicted homeless are growing in numbers everyday pushing away tourists.
Conventions? Fuhgetaboutit. San Francisco is no longer a draw, at all.
That means hotels and the businesses supporting them will soon close.
And still, more than 19,000 San Francisco city employees will continue to be paid over $150K per year for whatever they doo...
This is what they voted for. Now they’re getting it good and hard.
This is as it should be.
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I think this is true for all large cities. I have a house in a hot spot in philly and i should have sold it 2 years ago. Well i’ll see what happens.
Heh, it’ll put out of work many cleanup crews responsible for removing San Pelosi-shits-co crap that was tracked into the building from unfortunates to had to walk the ‘Shitsco streets.
Ugh, Salesforce. The very name drips with evil (I have to use their software a lot. It’s actually not terrible IF your sales force actually uses it).
Sales Force is evil.
Everyone else is much more productive working in an office. Let's say you're a start up. You work together with your peers to build a product you're trying to sell. You can't do that if everyone is at home in their pajamas.
On the bright side, there is now plenty of room for Democrats to take dumps on the sidewalks!
I’m sure what you wrote is true. Your description sounds a lot like the city in “Atlas Shrugged”.
But, I’ve wondered for a long time, since computing became fast enough to allow working away from a central office, why cluster together so? I do realize there is a certain synergy of being together, but it just seems there could be a lot less meetings.
Maybe that’s the land mines that Kamala was talking about that oil workers can do now that their jobs have been shut down.
“This is what they voted for. Now they’re getting it good and hard.”
Stupid should hurt.
“They are only coming back with 20% of staff and will likely terminate their lease when it comes up.”
I am hearing that a lot of very big commercial leases allow tenants to terminate early when the anchor tenant, often a large retailer, leaves. Which means that this may unravel more quickly than one might think.
They can turn it into homeless housing….
And their (liberal) employees will be free to spread like cockroaches throughout the country. Lovely.
You don't want to walk under the high windows in that place without sturdy umbrella, given the, ah, loose restrictions on bodily functions in the Golden City.
Look at the plus side - that’s over 700,000 square feet that can be turned into housing for the homeless and derelicts of the city. You can get a lot of SRO units into the Salesforce space.
I wonder if this notion of people coming into the office 1 or a few days a week will stick. If so, it could do wonders for the support businesses that manage to hang on. The real estate likely will eventually fill up, simply because it will always be worth more than suburban real estate. Maybe only twice as much instead of 50 times as much... but it will be worth more. And if 1,000 offices have 2,000 or 5,000 workers instead of 1,000... would you rather go to the suburban store in the middle of God-knows-where, or the cosmopolitan one next to the office? Won’t more DIFFERENT feet boost downtown?
Let’s say you’re an engineer and you create designs solo.
At home you don’t have some useless middle manager pestering you, nor do you have Black History Month meetings, or gay shit, or hot chicks wearing club clothes at work.
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