Salesforce Layoffs and their impact on Tableau and it's users

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. In this clip you're

0:02about to watch, it's taken from a live

0:04stream

0:05I just did this weekend which was a desktop

0:07crash course. But this clip was at the very

0:10beginning of that course and I wanted to

0:11pull it out of that course and just put it

0:13as its

0:13own video here on the channel. So this is a

0:15clip that was recorded earlier this weekend

0:17.

0:17It's not a separate video but I wanted to

0:19just get this view on the Salesforce

0:21layoffs

0:22shared with more people so that you know

0:24what I think. But also, you can hopefully

0:26go and

0:26support them on LinkedIn and/or wherever

0:28they might be looking for new roles in the

0:30future.

0:30As ever, here's the clip. Thanks for

0:32watching and I'll see you in the next one.

0:34We better. Let me switch over to this view.

0:38It's actually probably worth… I think

0:41there

0:41is actually something really important to

0:42talk about just before we get started. You

0:44might not know this but over the last week

0:47Salesforce, the parent company of Tableau,

0:51launched layoffs that impacted all of Sales

0:54force but actually in my opinion, they've

0:57heavily

0:57impacted Tableau. And so I'm here today to

1:00show you how to use the software but on

1:04LinkedIn, if you're on LinkedIn, you maybe

1:06will have seen a lot of the people who

1:08helped

1:08build this product, looking for roles,

1:11looking for opportunities in the employment

1:13market

1:14today and some of them just looking for

1:16support as well. When people get laid off,

1:19it's

1:19not always necessary that they needed a job

1:21straight away. Sometimes people take the

1:23opportunity

1:23to have a break. Sometimes people just love

1:26to know that the work they've done has had

1:28a meaningful impact on people. That's what

1:32I definitely saw from a lot of the Tableau

1:34staff. I've been working with Tableau…

1:37How long have I been a Tableau community

1:40member?

1:40I've been a Tableau community member for

1:42about seven years but I've worked with

1:43their,

1:43let's say, community program for about

1:46three years. And as an ambassador and as

1:49now a visionary,

1:51one of the opportunities you get is to work

1:53really closely with developers to help

1:54improve

1:55the product. And I can hand on heart say

1:57that they are extremely professional. They

2:00care

2:00so passionately about the product. They

2:03take things to levels of detail that you

2:05probably

2:06don't even appreciate when you open

2:07software. You might think that there's such

2:09basic

2:10things missing from the product that people

2:13should have figured out. Formatting is a

2:16classic

2:16one that I normally quite commonly rail

2:18about. I always think that should be better

2:20. But

2:21the people who work on the product do know

2:22that. They do hear our messages. And it's

2:24actually the mechanics within an

2:26organization that stops some of that

2:27innovation coming

2:28through. And so in the last week, it's just

2:31really important to let them know that

2:33their

2:33work is appreciated. Let them know that

2:35their efforts, wherever they land, are

2:38going to

2:38always be appreciated by the community. I

2:41always think once you're a Tableau

2:42community

2:42member, you're always a Tableau community

2:45member. And in terms of us as users, how

2:47does

2:47this layoff impact us? Well, it doesn't

2:50impact us immediately. Some of these things

2:53take a while to materialize. If you work in

2:56product management, you'll know that road

2:58maps

2:58exist for a reason. Most of the features

3:00that you see today get planned months in

3:03advance,

3:03maybe years in advance. So we probably won

3:05't see any change today, tomorrow, next week

3:07.

3:07I'll still be here doing videos about Table

3:10au, whatever, 24.1 or whatever it is. But I

3:14think

3:14we do have to hold a more critical eye on

3:16the vision and the leadership of Tableau as

3:18things start to change. And so it's only

3:20right to sort of, in many ways, show

3:22respect

3:23for the work that's coming before the work

3:25that's coming ahead. And so yeah, if you

3:27can do that, just go to LinkedIn, show

3:29anyone who works at Tableau love and

3:30support. Whether

3:31or not they've been laid off, they all need

3:33lots of support. Because for those who

3:34are still there, they've lost valuable

3:37colleagues and leadership as well. So show

3:39them some

3:39love, let them know they're appreciated.

3:42And yeah, today we're hopefully going to be

3:44celebrating their work as much as we'll be

3:46learning a bit about Tableau. Okay? So that

3:48's

3:48all I'm going to say. I'm not going to go

3:51on to much more about it. The world's a

3:53tough

3:53place and we know these things happen. So

3:55let's just try and sort of take the pos

3:57itivity

3:57out of it.