Google is putting its image at risk
The firm’s approach to dissenting staff – and issues they’ve expressed concern over – is at odds with its original aim to do things differently, writes James Moore
Google’s a 21-year-old, which puts the search giant on the borderline between millennial and generation Z. In corporate terms, however, it’s often described as middle-aged.
When it comes to its protesting staff, Google seems to have taken on the persona of an angry old baby boomer. Like a certain boomer in Washington? Let’s not go there.
Anyhow, there was more fuel added to the fires of controversy when a fifth fired employee went public with claims that she was canned “in retaliation” for her workforce-organising activities in the wake of a staff protest.
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