Google workers protest ‘culture of retaliation’ with sit-in

  • 📰 latimes
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 54 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 25%
  • Publisher: 82%

Business Business Headlines News

Business Business Latest News,Business Business Headlines

Google employees staged a sit-in to protest what they call a “culture of retaliation” at the company — the latest in a series of demonstrations by tech industry workers.

for holding that protest in a message posted to internal Google mailing lists on April 22, Wired reported.

Whittaker wrote that she was informed that her role at the company would be “changed dramatically,” and that she would have to abandon her outside work on artificial intelligence ethics at AI Now Institute, an organization she co-founded. Stapleton alleged in the internal Google message that she was told she would be demoted and one of her projects was nixed two months after the walkout. She said that after she took her concerns to the company’s human resources department, her manager started ignoring her and her work was delegated to others. Her position was restored after she hired a lawyer who prompted management to investigate, Stapleton wrote in the message obtained by Wired.

“Our stories aren’t the only ones. Google has a culture of retaliation, which too often works to silence women, people of color, and gender minorities,” Whittaker and Stapleton wrote. “Retaliation isn’t always obvious. It’s often confusing and drawn out, consisting of icy conversations, gaslighting, project cancellations, transition rejections, or demotions.”

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Why Amazon & Walfart employees don't strike is beyond comprehension.

Why does this not surprise me? They love touring abt Women & Minority leaders on their pages... yet there’s so much Sexism cases at that company? Smh Google

YOU ARE ALL FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!

Last I checked....they can always resign.

Huh? I thought Google was all about psychologicalsafety ?

Maybe Google needs to start hiring more mature and conservative employees.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 11. in BUSİNESS

Business Business Latest News, Business Business Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Alphabet stock drops after earnings show disappointing Google sales growthAlphabet Inc. revenue came up short of expectations as all of its major sales categories performed slightly worse than projected in the first quarter, and...
Source: MarketWatch - 🏆 3. / 97 Read more »

Alphabet earnings: Google juggles good investments with being a target for EU finesAlphabet Inc. absolutely destroyed earnings expectations in every quarter in 2018 — but there are two big reasons for that. Google prices$1500 Soon. My thought $GOOGL $1500 after ER.
Source: MarketWatch - 🏆 3. / 97 Read more »