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Google has ~100,000 employees at this point. This is the story of a single manager within the company. When you have that many people at the company, there ar
by kyrra 7y ago
Google has ~100,000 employees at this point. This is the story of a single manager within the company. When you have that many people at the company, there are going to be people that make bad choices, and then the story will fall under the umbrella of "Google" and make the news.
If this was a single small 25-100 person company, it would (likely) not get any notice.
- hcnews 7y agoHow do you know if there are 1 or 100 or 1000s of such cases without actual data? Companies should be forced to reveal number of cases per year per geography. That'll allow me to make an informed choice when joining a company. Also, its not clear to me why "HR will always help the company" has to be the status quo. This is an area where I would like the laws/judicial system to improve things.
- itchyouch 7y agoNot to argue against regulations that force revealing of data, but in my experience, whenever places are forced to "document" issues, the culture shifts to only document the egregious while anything else that can be swept under does get swept away as to not inflate the statistics. I wonder if there is a strategy that encourages openness, yet doesn't have the immediate impact of moving all the conversations behind closed doors in a buddy-buddy system.
- teraflop 7y ago> This is the story of a single manager within the company. No, it's a story of at least two different managers, and an HR department that supported them.
- Raphmedia 7y agoThe same story from a smaller company would be just as appalling. You should rejoice that Google is big enough that we take notice of this behavior and can then discuss of the issue as a society. To dismiss this issue because it happened at a big company would be a mistake.