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Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 employees following earlier layoffs

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Salesforce is starting a hiring spree, planning to bring 3,300 employees across different departments on board. 

The move follows the software company’s decision to trim its workforce by 10 percent in January. 

CEO Marc Benioff said: "Our job is to grow the company and to continue to achieve great margins.

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"We know we have to hire thousands of people."

Millham said the new hires will be distributed among sales, engineering, and those involved with Salesforce's data cloud product.

Salesforce had initially planned the job cuts and office closures due to an overly expanded workforce amid the pandemic and an economic downturn. 

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To counter the challenges in the tech spending landscape, it introduced a range of artificial intelligence features and increased its prices for the first time in seven years. 

Recently, Salesforce launched Einstein Copilot, a generative AI tool available across its suite of apps.

It caters to client needs across various services, from Slack to Tableau.

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