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"In the end, Google will pay out only $27 million, a drop in the bucket for such a titanic company." The article compares that payout against the $20,000 milli
by Full_Clark 3y ago
"In the end, Google will pay out only $27 million, a drop in the bucket for such a titanic company."
The article compares that payout against the $20,000 million Alphabet profited just last quarter, a significant difference considering that the lawsuit took ~28 quarters to generate this outcome.
Does anyone think the confidentiality clauses were pivotal in generating that scale of profit? Would Google or Alphabet be significantly poorer if their employees had been suddenly unburdened of the confidentiality clauses back in 2016?
- deltaburnt 3y agoPut another way, is it possible these actions led to a >$27m increase in profits? That's a 0.1% increase for that quarter, so maybe not so far fetched. If so then it was financially advantageous to break the law.