Daily Digest: Salesforce drops reference to 'diversity'; CEO's comeback story

Good morning, Bay Area. U.S. employers announced 172,017 layoffs for February, up 245% from January and the highest monthly count since July 2020, Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported. More than one-third of the total came from billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to reduce the federal headcount. Now it appears that the U.S. Department of Education is next, as a draft of President Trump's new executive order says it instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to close the department by taking all the…