Exactly one year ago, talking to a Salesforce VP who was looking to fill a manager position, he mentioned me that he'd prefer to fill it with someone external rather than promote internally because, according to him, the external person would "work harder".
It took him more than 6 months to fill the position.
The real reason was that he was looking for a woman and did not receive any external female candidates, but he preferred to leave the position vacant for 6 months instead of promoting a man.
Very recently Mr. Benioff stated that new employees are facing lower productivity and Salesforce hired too many people which caused this economic downturn.
Now he's out.