Salesforce CEO ends alcohol at work
The practice falling out of favor in the tech industry
Me either. But apparently, it does. Twitter and Glassdoor keep kegs of beer on tap, free and ready for employees to down at any time. Yelp and Github supply alcohol for employees after office hours and Facebook and Google don't have any alcohol policy in place, only that alcohol is allowed.
A nice little perk but full of obvious peril. But it appears all this while, there hasn't been anything that has gone too far off the rails. No rash of drunk driving, inebriated office abuse, or lawsuits of any kind - at least not widely known.
Booze gets a bad name, particularly when things go overboard, but it seems tech workers have been able to imbibe quite noblely. Kudos to them and cheers for a job well done. But the party may be coming to an end.
Salesforce does away with alcohol in the office
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff left a strong message for his 25,000 employees last month after seeing alcoholic drinks and kegs sitting in the office: take them out.
"I want to remind everyone that we have a no alcohol policy at Salesforce," Benioff wrote in an internal blog post, according to a person familiar with the matter. "Alcohol is a drug and having alcohol on a Salesforce premise is simply unfair to the Ohana who either do not want it or are intolerant of it."
It may kick off a new trend toward a more sober approach to office work.
Start-up Zenefits banned office drinking last year as part of its effort to clean up its party-like work culture. Uber is considering instituting a similar ban during "core working hours" and reducing the budget for drinks during after-hour events, based on recommendations by an outside law firm. Jet.com has gotten stricter about enforcing a no-booze rule after getting acquired by Wal-Mart, which doesn't allow office drinking, according to The Wall Street Journal. From CNBC
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