Some companies shut down during the winter holidays; others have one week of company-wide downtime so employees can recharge. At Slack, the workplace chat business owned by Salesforce, employees are taking a week off to earn “Ranger status.” Beginning on Monday, Slack employees will be expected to set aside their regular work duties and to instead plug away at various modules on Salesforce’s Trailhead online learning platform, Fortune has learned. The goal is for Slack’s employees to reach Trailhead’s Ranger level, a feat that requires roughly 40 hours on the learning platform, whose modules include topics like “Learn about the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Healthy Eating.” A large percent of Slack’s roughly 3,000 staff have neglected to hit the target, according to sources inside the company. And since Salesforce provides Trailhead to other businesses as a way to “upskill” employees, some speculate that the slackers at Slack make for bad optics. In a message to employees in mid-September, Slack CEO Lidiane Jones wrote that the one week shutdown, dubbed “Ranger Week,” is intended to give everyone “dedicated time to make a lot of progress towards the goal.” https://fortune.com/2023/10/05/slack-employees-one-week-off-internal-training-ranger-status-salesforce-trailhead/
If you have kids and work at this company, have them do it for $50 or something
Why? You're not doing it during your free time. It is during your work time paid by the company. So, if they want you to become a Ranger, become a Ranger 😜
@google, if you saw the training, you would know how much of a waste of time it is. A small percentage of the content relates to your core role.
Well we just learned that slack can be on autopilot for a week and in hindsight could show how some employees may not be needed 🫣
oncall eng are still going to fix oncall issues if they occur 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Services owned by my team can be on autopilot for months (assuming there is one on duty person) so what?
I’d play a ranger in bg3 instead.
Slack is sinking ship. Salesforce knows how to kill talent
Salesforce sounds chill
We do an even worse job at integrating acquisitions than Google. However, they don't get deprecated, they just continue on as shells of their former selves.
Thats actually pretty cool thing