Salesforce CEO Asks U.S. for Incentives to Hire Newly Unemployed

WATCH: Salesforce’s Marc Benioff discusses the launch of Work.com to help customers safely reopen their businesses, and how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting the tech industry.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Nico Grant and Emily Chang

May 4, 2020 at 6:20 PM UTC

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Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff called on the U.S. government to give companies financial incentives to hire workers who have lost their jobs in the Covid-19 recession.

“For young people and those now experiencing a need to rehire, I think the government in the second phase should give companies incentives to rehire aggressively,” Benioff said Monday in a Bloomberg TV interview. “That will be extremely important to make sure the second phase is successful.”