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Salesforce.com Inc. plans for most of its employees to work remotely part or full time after the pandemic and to reduce its real-estate footprint as a result, a top executive said, showing COVID-19’s lasting impact on how companies manage their workforces.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday named Suzanne Clark as its new chief executive, succeeding retiring CEO Thomas Donohue, who has led the organization since 1997.

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is looking for slight revenue growth next quarter, which would be its first growth since November 2019, but some of its core equipment businesses are still hurting from the pandemic.

As the world grappled with COVID-19, a recession and a racial reckoning, the ultrawealthy gave to a broader set of causes than ever before — bestowing multimillion-dollar gifts on food pantries, historically Black colleges and universities and organizations that serve the poor and the homeless, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual rankings of the 50 Americans who gave the most to charity last year.