{"id":45199,"date":"2026-02-11T21:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/slacks-new-head-just-denounced-salesforce-ceo-marc-benioffs-ice-jokes-in-internal-messages\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:31:24","slug":"slacks-new-head-just-denounced-salesforce-ceo-marc-benioffs-ice-jokes-in-internal-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/slacks-new-head-just-denounced-salesforce-ceo-marc-benioffs-ice-jokes-in-internal-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Slack&#8217;s new head just denounced Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff&#8217;s ICE jokes in internal messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69242e9f89026fbb4d0e3fe0?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025.\"\/><figcaption>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Markus Schreiber<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during an employee event.<\/li>\n<li>Executives, including the new general manager for Slack, addressed Benioff&#039;s comments.<\/li>\n<li>The comments included a joke about ICE surveilling employees&#039; travel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Salesforce executives, including Slack&#039;s new general manager, addressed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff&#039;s jokes about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to internal messages.<\/p>\n<p>Benioff angered some employees with the comments on Tuesday, including one about ICE surveilling employees&#039; travel.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I want to acknowledge the jokes that happened this morning at CKO,&quot; Slack general manager Rob Seaman wrote in an internal Slack message viewed by Business Insider. &quot;I cannot defend or explain them. They do not align with my personal values and I know this to be the case for many of you as well.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Salesforce has yet to respond to repeated requests about Benioff&#039;s comments and did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I assume there will be a statement that addresses them,&quot; Seaman wrote. &quot;If there isn&#039;t, I&#039;ll talk about it in the next all Slack call, and then I hope we can highlight what was actually super positive from the morning &#8211; real, authentic acknowledgment of the work that you&#039;ve all done and the importance of Slack right now.<\/p>\n<p>Salesforce recently promoted Seaman to executive vice president and general manager of Slack, following Slack CEO Denise Dresser&#039;s departure in December to become OpenAI&#039;s chief revenue officer. The company also promoted Joe Inzerillo, its previous chief digital officer, to president of enterprise and AI technology, overseeing both Slack and Agentforce.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Broscow, a VP, also addressed Benioff&#039;s comments on Slack, calling on Benioff to publicly respond.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Marc has so much valuable insight to share on the Agentic Transformation,&quot; Broscow wrote in a message viewed by Business Insider. &quot;And the quarter was so strong. Everyone&#039;s excited to be here. Most of us love our work and appreciate the privilege of working here. But for the senior leaders who I&#039;m sure follow this thread to engage employee sentiment: this is overshadowing everything else and for everyone who has the courage to post there are 100+ people in Vegas who share their deep disappointment. It would be a step in the right direction and for Marc to acknowledge as soon as possible &#8211; ideally publicly &#8211; that his attempted joke was extremely upsetting to large segments of his employee base.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at <\/em><em>astewart@businessinsider.com<\/em><em> or Signal at +1-425-344-8242. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/insider-guide-to-securely-sharing-whistleblower-information-about-powerful-institutions-2021-10\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here&#039;s our guide to sharing information securely<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT. AP Photo\/Markus Schreiber Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during an employee event. Executives, including the new general manager for Slack, addressed Benioff&#039;s comments. The comments included a joke about ICE surveilling employees&#039; travel. 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