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Google Cancels "Town Hall" Due to Leaks

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

takyon writes:

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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• Re:Editors: let's not do comment-bait? (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:01PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:01PM (#552504)

  Of course, in 20 years, the pendulum will have swung to far in some other direction. We won't get a meritocracy, we won't get people treated as individuals. Instead, we will get...something else. Some other way for some other group of unqualified people to gather and exert personal power over those of us who just love technology and want to get the job done.

  So when are the Swiss going to return all that Nazi gold to the original owners?

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