Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract
Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, in a company-wide memo published at The Verge, under the clear subject “Serious consequences for disruptive behavior”:
Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not
tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all
employees must adhere to — including our Code of Conduct and
Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of
Conduct, and Workplace Concerns.
We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read
our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and
communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our
employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are
tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our
policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously,
and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take
action against disruptive behavior — up to and including
termination.
It says a lot about how adrift Google was that “We are a place of business” needed to be stated, but better late than never.
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Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, in a company-wide memo published at The Verge, under the clear subject “Serious consequences for disruptive behavior”:
Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not
tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all
employees must adhere to — including our Code of Conduct and
Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of
Conduct, and Workplace Concerns.
We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read
our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and
communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our
employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are
tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our
policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously,
and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take
action against disruptive behavior — up to and including
termination.
It says a lot about how adrift Google was that “We are a place of business” needed to be stated, but better late than never.