Trailblazer Pacesetter LATE BLOOMER
Company Narrative
Salesforce, a global software business, has been ranked as a LATE BLOOMER on the Women’s Power and Influence Index.
Salesforce understands the importance of catering to women’s specific healthcare needs by providing the Progyny Smart Cycle for unlimited fertility support. Additionally, Salesforce supports both birthing and non-birthing parents in parental leave plans to set families up for success.
As of 2022, 38% of Salesforce’s workforce includes women, with 30% of leadership positions being held by women.
Information relating to Salesforce’s pay parity could not be found.
Workforce Profile
Equitable Pay
✓ Does the company demonstrate a clear and transparent commitment to equal pay?
“In 2015, we were one of the first companies to evaluate whether there were any gaps in pay among our global workforce. Such a simple idea — equal pay for equal work. At the time, it was pretty progressive, but since then more companies have joined us in committing to equal pay.
We’re glad to see the progress we’ve made as an industry but, as we know, there is no finish line when it comes to equality. Equal pay should be table stakes and as expected as an earnings call or an annual report, which is why we’ve incorporated it directly into our annual compensation process.”
Ref: Salesforce Equal Pay (Website)
✓ Does the company perform an annual analysis of gender pay equity and pay disparities?
“Today, we’ve completed our latest fiscal year compensation review, and with it our seventh equal pay assessment of nearly 70,000 global employees at the time of the audit — including Slack, our company’s largest acquisition that closed last year.
Our analysis found 8.5% of our global employees required adjustments. Of those, 92% were based on gender globally, and 8% were based on race or ethnicity in the U.S. As a result, we spent $5.6 million to address any unexplained differences in pay, a total of more than $22 million spent since 2015.”
Ref: Salesforce Equal Pay (Website)
✘ Do female employees earn at least 95% of what their male counterparts earn?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
Career Growth
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to actively attracting, retaining, and/or promoting women within the organization?
“Our aspiration is to create a workplace that looks like society and to do this we need to accelerate representation. In 2019, we set a goal to have 50% of our U.S. employees from underrepresented groups by 2023. We’ve now met that goal nearly a full year early. Today, 50.7% of our U.S. employees are members of underrepresented groups. ”
Ref: Salesforce Annual Equality 2022 (Website)
✓ Does the company provide professional development programs designed specifically for female employees?
“Salesforce Women’s Network amplifies the progress of women in every step of their journey. We achieve this through professional and personal development, allyship, supportive connections, and taking action on gender equality. We are the largest Equality group and our programs include content and activities to support our values of empathy, trust, well-being, and advancement of women. This includes supporting the #IamRemarkable initiative, Gender Equality focused VTO, and conducting Safe Space Discussions.”
Ref: Salesforce Equality Groups (Website)
✓ Does the company provide professional development programs designed specifically for diverse employees?
“WINDforce is a community representing a Worldwide Indigenous Network of Diversity. Our work is dedicated to education, engagement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing with the aim of respecting and celebrating indigenous peoples and their cultures around the world. We aim to seek outcomes of self-determination, truth-telling, and contribution to the wider economy and technological advancement.”
Ref: Salesforce Equality Groups (Website)
✘ Does the company offer a formal mentoring program to support the career advancement of all female employees?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓ Does the company offer a formal mentoring program to support the career advancement of diverse employees?
“Our Equality Mentorship program pairs employees of color with executive mentors to help navigate their careers. The program was founded by equality group leaders in BOLDforce and Asiapacforce to create more access for their communities to senior leaders and is now a core program managed by the Equality team. The program includes resources for mentees and mentors, and a continued learning path for our participants to turn mentors into career advocates and sponsors.”
Ref: Salesforce Annual Equality 2022 (Website)
✓ Does the company have policies and programs in place to actively recruit female candidates?
“Over the last few years we’ve been deeply focused on re-imagining our hiring systems with equality at the center. We saw significant change thanks to new initiatives like: our diversity recruiting team, a more equitable referral process, and the Insiders program, which connects candidates to employees from their community. Underrepresented Minority (URM) overall, as well as Black and Latinx, hiring representation have all increased since last year.
(Women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Multiracial, LGBTQ+ employees, People with Disabilities, and Veterans)”
Ref: Salesforce Annual Equality 2022 (Website)
✓ Does the company have policies and programs in place to actively recruit diverse candidates?
“Over the last few years we’ve been deeply focused on re-imagining our hiring systems with equality at the center. We saw significant change thanks to new initiatives like: our diversity recruiting team, a more equitable referral process, and the Insiders program, which connects candidates to employees from their community. Underrepresented Minority (URM) overall, as well as Black and Latinx, hiring representation have all increased since last year.
(Women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Multiracial, LGBTQ+ employees, People with Disabilities, and Veterans)”
Work-Life Balance
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to providing support and/or time off for women with children?
“Salesforce understands that family comes first, so they offer an impressive array of child care benefits through the CONCERN Employee Assistance Program. Through this program, parents (including expecting parents) will have access to infant centers and preschools, in-home childcare, education programs, after school care, and more, even adoption assistance.”
Ref: Salesforce Childcare
✓ Does the company provide child care support for employees?
“The child care assistance that Salesforce offers doesn’t end once the baby is born. CONCERN can provide assistance through every stage of a child’s development, whether they’re needing daycare or heading off to college. Parents can get help with all sorts of schooling options, including everything in between, such as sports, arts, and academic programs.”
Ref: Salesforce Childcare
✘ Does the company offer subsidized child care?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓Does the company offer paid maternity leave for birthing parents?
“We know how important it is to take time away to bond with a new baby or adopted child. Here’s how we nurture that quality time:
- For new Parental Leaves beginning on or after April 1, 2021, the benefit provides the greater of 100% base salary or 80% of on-target earnings (OTE) (includes base salary, target commissions, and target bonus) with no weekly maximum.
- Primary caregivers can take 26 weeks of paid time off.
- Secondary caregivers can take 12 weeks of paid time off.”
Ref: Salesforce Benefits
✓Does the company provide paid parental leave that extends beyond birthing parents to include surrogacy, adoption, and paternity leave?
“We know how important it is to take time away to bond with a new baby or adopted child. Here’s how we nurture that quality time:
- For new Parental Leaves beginning on or after April 1, 2021, the benefit provides the greater of 100% base salary or 80% of on-target earnings (OTE) (includes base salary, target commissions, and target bonus) with no weekly maximum.
- Primary caregivers can take 26 weeks of paid time off.
- Secondary caregivers can take 12 weeks of paid time off.”
Ref: Salesforce Benefits
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to supporting the health benefits of its female employees?
“Progyny’s fertility specialists can help you grow your family—no matter your path to parenthood. Progyny Smart Cycle gives you unlimited support from fertility advocates and convenient access to the largest network of fertility experts. Your coverage includes three Smart Cycles for a variety of treatments, including egg freezing and frozen-embryo transfer.”
Ref: Salesforce Benefits
✓ Does the company offer women-specific health benefits for female employees?
“Progyny’s fertility specialists can help you grow your family—no matter your path to parenthood. Progyny Smart Cycle gives you unlimited support from fertility advocates and convenient access to the largest network of fertility experts. Your coverage includes three Smart Cycles for a variety of treatments, including egg freezing and frozen-embryo transfer.”
Ref: Salesforce Benefits
Workplace Standards
✓ Does the company have a policy listing prohibited behaviors, such as harassment and retaliation?
“Harassment and bullying are not tolerated. Harassment is any conduct relating to a person’s legally-protected characteristics that creates an unwelcome, intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment for that person. That can range from offensive jokes or comments, slurs and name calling, and any act of bullying, or exclusion. It also includes sexual harassment, including unwanted sexual advances, suggestive comments or inappropriate touching.”
Ref: Salesforce Code of Conduct (Website)
✘ Does the company mandate all employees to undergo harassment and discrimination training?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓ Does the company have a defined harassment policy that includes promptly addressing reported incidents?
“Violations of this Code and other company policies are taken seriously. There are consequences for violating this Code or other company policies, which may include discipline up to and including termination of employment.”
Stakeholder Engagement
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to helping external stakeholders address gender equality issues?
“Salesforce has an unparalleled ecosystem, with hundreds of thousands of customers and partners and millions of Trailblazers building their companies on our platform. We know advancing equality takes all of us, so we’re partnering with our ecosystem to design better diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies and build more diverse workforces.”
Ref: Salesforce Annual Equality 2023
✓ Does the company offer and support initiatives that promote gender equality in the community?
“We partner with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by providing internship and career opportunities for students. We also help accelerate HBCU digital transformations with pro bono resources. Through our HBCU360 initiative, we’ve activated partnerships with 20 HBCUs.
Our strategic business development team works closely with small- and medium-sized businesses through events such as the National Black Business Month Block Party and the #WeAllGrow Latina organization’s Las Founders Summit to support networking and community-building with hundreds of Black, Hispanic, and Latinx business leaders in person, and millions more who are connected virtually.”
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to helping internal stakeholders/employees address gender equality issues?
“Equality is a part of who we are at Salesforce. Our commitment to equality is embedded across our business and is reflected in the decisions and actions we take as a company. Especially in challenging times, this commitment does not waver.”
Ref: Salesforce Annual Equality 2023
✓ Does the company offer equity-focused trainings, speaker programs, or events for employees?
“Salesforce Women’s Network amplifies the progress of women in every step of their journey. We achieve this through professional and personal development, allyship, supportive connections, and taking action on gender equality. We are the largest Equality group and our programs include content and activities to support our values of empathy, trust, well-being, and advancement of women. This includes supporting the #IamRemarkable initiative, Gender Equality focused VTO, and conducting Safe Space Discussions.”