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posted by martyb on Friday August 11 2017, @02:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the hurry-up-and-stop dept.

Google is struggling to discuss the recent diversity memo controversy internally:

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, canceled a scheduled all-hands staff meeting—moments before it was scheduled to begin—meant to address concerns over a controversial essay published by former employee James Damore.

In an email to staff, Pichai explained that questions from employees had been leaked and that, in some cases, specific employees' identities were revealed, exposing them to harassment and threats. Instead of today's large-scale meeting, which was to be livestreamed to Google's 60,000 employees worldwide, smaller groups will meet sometime in the future.

"We had hoped to have a frank open discussion today as we always do to bring us together and move forward. But our Dory questions appeared externally this afternoon, and on some websites Googlers are now being named personally," Pichai said in the email.

Also at CNET.


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday August 12 2017, @06:13AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday August 12 2017, @06:13AM (#552766) Journal

    I wonder if we will see employees sue Alphabet Inc. (Google) for being not diverse enough. Then others to sue them for being diverse. While the rest enjoy the popcorn and flames.

    So far the GOOG share has since August 7 went from 914.39 to 929.51 US$ a 1.63% drop in 5 days.
    Alphabet Inc went from 945.75 to 930.09 a 1.66% drop.
    As a comparison United Airlines [soylentnews.org] beating-passenger-share has since April 13 went from 70 to 66 US$ a 5.7% drop.

    I think this spectacle also shows why the "nothing to hide" is so hollow. Suppose a person working at google is exposed to have the wrong opinions. Upon exposure they will be IRL flamed and fired.

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