Google has been on a firing spree but it is not just linked to their performance or changing business plans. The company was forced to sack over 28 employees who conducted in-office protests over one of its deals with a government recently which didn’t go down well with Sundar Pichai and Co. And now, reports say that Google has fired another 20 employees over the same matter.
The fresh details about the protest have been shared by one of the organisers quoted by The Verge on Wednesday. The report also points out that Google has already sacked over 50 employees over the internal protests in quick time without any proper redressal or discussion done on the subject.
These employees were clearly angered by Google’s dealings with the Israeli government worth $1.2 billion. In an internal memo to employees, quoted in the report, the company said that behaviour like this “has no place in our workplace, and we will not tolerate it.”
“The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” Google told the staff.
The company faces questions about its deals with governments across the globe but the ongoing situation in the region, points to a bigger issue brewing in-house which needed immediate action.
Google’s opinion on the subject was clearly pointed out by CEO Sundar Pichai saying, it will not accept any kind of behaviour that disrupts focus on the work and its co-workers. Pichai was quoted in a blog post this week, where he warns Google employees to keep their focus on the work and keep the office space for building products and not as a personal platform.
In the post, Pichai said, “this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics,” Pichai wrote. “This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted.”
This isn’t the first time when Google employees have staged in-office protests but the nature and the timing of the latest unrest is clearly not going down well with Pichai and Co. and these sackings clearly point to the anger from the company.
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