Salesforce workers outraged after CEO makes joke about ICE watching them
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, faced backlash for joking about ICE watching international employees during a keynote address at an internal conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, with employees planning to urge him to cancel business with the agency.
Employees and leaders at Slack, owned by Salesforce, have publicly expressed outrage and called for Benioff to apologize, citing the joke as "tone-deaf" and criticizing his remarks as insensitive to immigrant workers.
The controversy comes as Salesforce workers were reportedly preparing to push Benioff to end the company's contract with ICE, with the CEO's joke further fueling demands for accountability and action on the issue, according to The Guardian US.
