Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns
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Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns
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#2You can read Claire's reasons for leaving Google in her own words here: https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/why-a-googlewalkout-organi...
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#3These companies are so huge and such an integral part of society that they need to be made more accountable to the public, and forcing them to be more accountable to their workers is part of that. I think the recent proposal to require employee representation on the board of directors of $1B+ companies is a good start.
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#4She walked out for good. Gotta admire her integrity! Also this from her post just hits the nail on the head:
> [Google leadership] are talking to everyone who thought my story sounded familiar, anyone who’s been Through It in some form: pushed out or punished for speaking up, gaslit, discriminated against, isolated, harassed. People are telling each other their stories. Refusing to acknowledge our humanity and engage with the deeper issues being raised - well, that's not very Googley.
'Nuff said. Google is going to have serious problems in the future unless they start addressing the obvious flaws in their company culture - their vulnerability to upstarts and competitors can only increase going forward!
Re: Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns
#5These companies are so huge and such an integral part of society that they need to be made more accountable to the public, and forcing them to be more accountable to their workers is part of that. I think the recent proposal to require employee representation on the board of directors of $1B+ companies is a good start.
Why should you wait until the company is worth a billion. Why not a function of employee/contractor count?
Re: Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns
#6Far left activists will lose because they are fragile. You just have to deal them a setback and they give up.
Re: Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns
#7These companies are so huge and such an integral part of society that they need to be made more accountable to the public, and forcing them to be more accountable to their workers is part of that. I think the recent proposal to require employee representation on the board of directors of $1B+ companies is a good start.
Why should you wait until the company is worth a billion. Why not a function of employee/contractor count?
Sure, I think that would be a good proposal as well. Ideally all companies would have some degree of worker representation / control.
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#8These companies are so huge and such an integral part of society that they need to be made more accountable to the public, and forcing them to be more accountable to their workers is part of that. I think the recent proposal to require employee representation on the board of directors of $1B+ companies is a good start.
On Day One, the entire workforce of every company becomes "contractors".
Labor does not have the leverage in most industries as it does in large tech. Even in tech it is cyclical. Younger readers here, who missed out on the 2001 and 2008 crashes, are going to have an eye-opening experience when the next recession gets here.
Re: Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns
#9You can read Claire's reasons for leaving Google in her own words here: https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/why-a-googlewalkout-organi...
> Fast forward a few years and I’d moved to New York, cycled through Creative Lab and landed at YouTube. As I neared the ten-year mark, my first boss, Sally Cole, who’d left Google many years before, joked that I was surely due for an existential crisis. But when I got back to work after having my son Malcolm in 2017, it wasn’t me who was having an existential crisis. It was Google itself.
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#10These companies are so huge and such an integral part of society that they need to be made more accountable to the public, and forcing them to be more accountable to their workers is part of that. I think the recent proposal to require employee representation on the board of directors of $1B+ companies is a good start.
Sorry if I'm out of the loop, but which proposal are you referring to, and who proposed it?