Protests within Google over how the company handles employee activism continue to grow.
About 200 Google employees and other tech workers assembled outside the company’s downtown San Francisco office on Friday to call for the reinstatement of two workers placed on leave this month for reasons they claim are connected to their internal activism.
The company said the employees were placed on administrative leave as they are investigated for violating company policy by accessing and sharing documents they did not have permissions for and tracking the publicly shared calendar of other employees on the communications and human resources teams. Sleuthing by staffers on calendar entries“We have clear guidelines about appropriate conduct at work, and we’ve had a number of concerns raised.
She also said that when she was being interviewed by the company’s global investigations team she was asked about her involvement in a petition against the company’s work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection as well as her social media usage outside of Google.Berland said his access to internal servers was cut off without warning shortly after he sent an email to the company’s community moderation team.
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