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Why is it that Google seems to always have these sorts of very public employee issues and controversies? I’ve got a pretty good idea, their work culture is one
by nodesocket 5y ago
Why is it that Google seems to always have these sorts of very public employee issues and controversies? I’ve got a pretty good idea, their work culture is one of the most toxic in respect to diversity of thought and freedom of expression. This echo chamber culture comes all the way from the top. Don’t get me wrong, I am in no way advocating that employees should be allowed to post or disseminate any sort of hate speech, but this seemed like an attempt to apologize for past mistakes and open up a dialogue and conversation. You couldn’t pay me enough to work at Google, I’d probably also be fired pretty quickly as well.
- dclusin 5y agoPlenty of smaller companies have these sorts of personnel issues, its just that nobody cares because they aren't worth a trillion dollars or whatever.
- jacob2484 5y ago"I am in no way advocating that employees should be allowed to post or disseminate any sort of hate speech" -> you want freedom of expression yet support what others will claim as "hate speech". If hate speech is something that someone disagrees is with or is slightly offended, then there's no freedom of expression.
- sascha_sl 5y agoI honestly think Google is pretty open to any sort of discussion at work (including political), the cases where it boils over are just the extremes (or very contentious, see Damore) outcrops of allowing this in the first place. goto/distraction[1] alone would be over the line in some of the places I've worked [1]: https://www.slideshare.net/paulsmarsden/google-deck-on-digital-wellbeing-a-call-to-minimize-distraction-and-respect-users-attention https://www.slideshare.net/paulsmarsden/google-deck-on-digit...