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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @09:01PM (1 child)
What where we talking about again?
I guess I can participate
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday August 12 2017, @10:13PM
Quick TD;LR as also found this story a bit confusing when I first read about it:
* Google executes discriminatory policies for some time against some groups to compensate other perceived disadvantaged groups.
* The engineer: James Damore - Writes a scientifically correct but politically incorrect memo. That analyzes differences between gender, race and career outcomes with remedy recommendations and publishes it on a internal Google message board (2017-08-07 ?).
* New vice president for diversity, integrity and governance: Danielle Brown - sends a statement to staff condemning James.
* CEO: Sundar Pichai - sends out a company wide note that portions of the memo violate the code of conduct and fires James.
* Julian Assange publicly offers James a job.
* An all employee meeting inside Google is cancelled due to perceived threats.
My take: The management is incapable of handling the corporate culture and now the train wreck got it's own momentum is very hard to control. Permanent damage has already occurred.
The original memo: Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber [diversitymemo.com] original [diversitymemo.com].
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