Salesforce Leases Scotts Valley Retreat For New Work-And-Wellness Center

CBS San Francisco

February 10, 2022

SCOTTS VALLEY (CBS SF) – San Francisco-based software company Salesforce recently signed a multi-year agreement on a 75-acre forest retreat to provide a work-and-wellness center for its 70,000 employees, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The lease of what Salesforce calls “Trailblazer Ranch” in the redwood forests of Scotts Valley comes after two years of remote work, which removed the in-person collaboration the company values. The company will use the site to not only onboard new employees, it will host off-site meetings for “social bonding and leadership training,” Salesforce chief people officer Brent Hyder told the Wall Street Journal.

The article notes that the Trailblazer Ranch “is one of the first experiments by a big employer with building culture for a workforce that is no longer coming into an office five days a week.” It’s also a reaction to the company’s plan to have the majority of its staff on a hybrid working model, coming into the office between one and three days a week.

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