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Sorry to rain on your parade Google is a "US" company - just because its sets up in Europe to get access to cheap labour and as a lobbying tool "look we employ
by walshemj 8y ago
Sorry to rain on your parade Google is a "US" company - just because its sets up in Europe to get access to cheap labour and as a lobbying tool "look we employ x people in your country" - doesn't make any difference.
Eu companies do the same German pro union at home hire dodgy American union busters in the UK for example
- pofilat 8y agoHow many thousands of employees, including executive roles, does a company need before it is an international company?
- fixermark 8y agoLegally, absolutely. If the US declared war on all of Europe tomorrow, there's no meaningful question what Google would do. ... but practically and on the ground, the Google employee base is large and international enough that there may very well be employees with friends or relatives in US military hot-zones where the US has not successfully demonstrated sufficient care about civilian casualties. Their desire to only work for the company in relatively peaceful times is pretty understandable. Nobody wants to wake up one morning and realize they're an IBM employee in 1940.
- trowawai999 8y agoSorry, no. Technically it's a US-based company, but culturally it's multinational, and business-wise, most of its revenue comes from outside the US. Arguing that Google owes special allegiance to the US gov't is like arguing that it owes special allegiance to the gov't of Delaware.