Boards see this as good “decisioning”. Decisions are made by proportional controllers — money cheap, hire and grow, money expensive, fire and slow. So execs are being very prudent here, according to investors.
Yeah that's what breaks my heart. It's gratuitously meaningless language designed to soften the human blow even though everyone who doesn't rely on Salesforce employment for a paycheck ends up benefiting. So there's no check on over-hiring and then dumping once convenient.