Salesforce suggests its California employees to work from home

Salesforce is encouraging its employees to work from home. The company is the largest employer in San Francisco.

In a statement posted on its website on Saturday suggesting remote work for its California employees during March.

“We’ve made this decision out of an abundance of caution and in service to protecting our employees, their families and our communities,” the statement stated. “During this time, we will continue to pay our vendor hourly service providers, who are an important part of our family.”

This move is been followed by the company for its Washington employees, where an outbreak of the coronavirus in the Seattle area spread in the last week.

The announcement came on the same day Mayor London Breed announced six more cases of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, in the city, bringing the total to eight.

In San Francisco, the company has about 9,100 employees out of about 43,000 worldwide. It occupies several office buildings in South of Market near the Salesforce Transit Center.

The Bay Area is bracing for a major slowdown as most of the big tech companies have suggested employees work from home. That list includes Twitter, Lyft, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft and Square.