Last February, Salesforce announced that folks could live the WFH life indefinitely. Yesterday, it announced that its San Francisco office will reopen next month

Kim Lyons at The Verge wrote that as the largest employer in San Francisco, it's possible that Salesforce could be a pied piper for other companies in the area that are considering reopening their offices.

Naturally, I started thinking about the implications on IT, especially those of you who work at companies that have announced an indefinite WFH policy. Do you have contingency plans for a world in which everyone's back in the office again? Let me know in this SaaSOps Community thread.
 

Salesforce said Monday that it will reopen its San Francisco headquarters in May, but its employees can still work remotely through the end of the year. The company has already reopened 22 of its offices, according to company president and chief people officer Brent Hyder, who wrote in a blog post that Salesforce would decide how and when to reopen each location based on guidance from health officials and medical experts.
2020 accelerated the adoption of SaaS applications across the enterprise, creating new management and security challenges. How will IT not only tackle these challenges but drive valuable outcomes for the business? Join BetterCloud and Gartner Research for a topical conversation on SaaS management and the state of IT.
Nvidia has focused mainly on graphics processing units, or GPUs, which are used to power video games and data-heavy computing tasks in data centers. CPUs, by contrast, are a type of chip that’s more of a generalist and can do basic tasks like running operating systems. Expanding into this product category opens up more revenue opportunities for Nvidia.
A zero-day vulnerability in Zoom which can be used to launch remote code execution (RCE) attacks has been disclosed by researchers. Pwn2Own, organized by the Zero Day Initiative, is a contest for white-hat cybersecurity professionals and teams to compete in the discovery of bugs in popular software and services. Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade earned themselves $200,000 for their Zoom discovery.
 

When taking screenshots on a Mac, the Mac screenshot tool usually hides the mouse pointer so it won’t get in the way. But sometimes, you need to capture the pointer to illustrate something properly. Luckily, it’s easy to turn on with a simple option. Here’s how.
Erratic Mac behavior may be due to failing physical components, software malfunctions, errors in the filesystem, and more. You can minimize or solve the problems with a few tools and a maintenance regime. Let's look at the best Mac diagnostic, maintenance, and system tools to detect and fix common macOS problems.
Log files are critical troubleshooting tools, but little else. When you contact technical support, you’re often asked to find and send a log file, or enable a feature in software to dump extra debugging information to a log that you can send the next time a problem occurs. Here's how you can clean 'em out and save some precious hard drive space.
 

We featured this conversation about a month ago—and it's still going strong! Are you a Mac or, like Justin Long as of a few weeks ago, a PC? Check out the community's top Windows recommendations for engineers by clicking the link above. And while you're at it, let us know which machines your engineers prefer.
 
SAAS update
Google is adding three new features to the Google Meet Hardware section of the Admin console: Peripheral Status, Default Volume, and Static Device List URLs. You’ll see these updates in the Admin console under Devices > Google Meet Hardware. This will be available to all Google Workspace customers in organizations with Google Meet Hardware.
 
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