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Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce<\/strong>, has responded to the media frenzy surrounding his company\u2019s decision to shrink its customer support team.<\/p>\n

That frenzy ensued after Benioff\u2019s appearance on The Logan Bartlett Show.<\/p>\n

During the conversation, the CEO explained how Salesforce\u2019s AI agents now handle 1.5MN of the company’s incoming customer queries.<\/p>\n

At the same time, human support agents handled approximately the same number of conversations, with “nearly identical” customer satisfaction scores. Benioff continued:<\/p>\n

I was able to rebalance my headcount on my support. I\u2019ve reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since the podcast aired, Salesforce shared a statement with journalists, claiming to have successfully redeployed hundreds of employees into other areas like professional services, sales, and customer success.<\/p>\n

However, some industry observers have been quick to question not only the ethics but the details of Benioff\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

Indeed, one former Salesforce employee accused Benioff of sharing an outright lie<\/a>, claiming Salesforce’s AI is “not ready for primetime” in a viral LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n

Others have referenced how its market rival ServiceNow had kept its headcount steady<\/a>, despite implementing AI agents across customer support and deflecting 75 percent of queries.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, some have predicted that Salesforce may suffer the same fate as Klarna. It leaned too heavily on AI customer service, only to then reportedly draft in employees<\/a> from marketing, engineering, and legal to answer the phone.<\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, analysts pressed Benioff on the claim during his company\u2019s latest earnings call. The CEO responded by stating:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard for everybody to get their head around what\u2019s possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Salesforce has the opportunity to\u2026 reduce everybody\u2019s support cost, to make everyone\u2019s sales organization a lot more productive, to make everyone\u2019s marketing have a much higher ROI, to make every field service technician a superman or superwoman, and to make every Slack user far more empowered in their organization than ever before, and I could go on and on and on.”<\/p>\n

Benioff also isolated three reasons market rivals may struggle to emulate Salesforce’s results.<\/p>\n

The first is timing. Indeed, the CEO claimed that the industry hasn\u2019t matched Salesforce\u2019s rapid innovation curve, with the CRM leader releasing Agentforce 3<\/a> little more than nine months after the platform\u2019s debut.<\/p>\n

Second is noise. Here, Benioff stated: “There are very smart people in our industry and other executives who are saying absolute nonsense.” In other words, don\u2019t always trust what\u2019s on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Salesforce man tagged “fear”. That\u2019s understandable, given how intimidating significant change can be and the task vendors face around AI education.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, despite facing that fear, Salesforce is seemingly starting to overcome it, as Agentforce adoption ramps up.<\/p>\n

More Big News from Salesforce<\/h2>\n

12,500+ companies are now building on Agentforce, up from 8,000 as announced during Salesforce\u2019s previous earnings call three months ago.<\/p>\n

Salesforce execs credited the company\u2019s strategy of delivering industry- and department-specific Agentforce offerings as a critical driver.<\/p>\n

These equip businesses with ready-made components to build AI agents that align with their needs, lowering the barrier to entry and building confidence in the technology.<\/p>\n

Indeed, that strategy is seemingly working with Salesforce reporting a 60 percent increase quarter-over-quarter in customers moving from pilot to production.<\/p>\n

Alongside all the Agentforce Chatter, Salesforce looked ahead to October\u2019s Dreamforce event, where it will officially enter the ITSM (IT service management) space<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reaffirming the move on the earnings call, Benioff stated:<\/p>\n

A lot of our existing customers have been asking for this, [and] we\u2019re bringing a whole new level of capability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, in regards to Salesforce\u2019s actual earnings, it enjoyed a ten percent year-over-year (YoY) increase in revenue growth, reaching $10.25BN for the quarter.<\/p>\n

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