Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
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#2So, the executives stopped attending and then the employers stopped attending as well. what a shocking correlation.
Re: Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
#3So, the executives stopped attending and then the employers stopped attending as well. what a shocking correlation.
More likely: employees were attending too much for the reasons inconvenient to the executives. As an ex-Googler: this is the surest indication yet that Google is in deep trouble. TGIF would be canceled from time to time before when the execs suspected things would get confrontational and employees wouldn't like even remotely honest answers. But to cancel them basically permanently is going to blow up in Sundar's face. The ongoing communication channel, as difficult as it might be politically for both sides, is an integral (and very beneficial) part of Google culture. Or, _was_, at this point.
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#4It's almost like the employees are slowly seeing Sundar as somebody they can't relate with under the company's now "controversial" common goals and objectives. Now Google management is panicking and doing everything they can to reduce employee's face time with the higher-ups since management knows the company is moving in a direction that a large number of employees disagree with!
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#5I wonder if companies like Google and GitHub that actively courted activists are now regretting their decision. For a long time it was common knowledge that you would try to keep stuff like that out of the workplace. The past 10 years have been an about face to that strategy and now we're seeing more or less complete chaos internally at these previously pro-politics (some kinds of politics) workplaces.
My guess is there will certainly be a shift away from other companies trying to do this in the future. Rightfully so imho.
Re: Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
#6It's almost like the employees are slowly seeing Sundar as somebody they can't relate with under the company's now "controversial" common goals and objectives. Now Google management is panicking and doing everything they can to reduce employee's face time with the higher-ups since management knows the company is moving in a direction that a large number of employees disagree with!
> It's almost like the employees are slowly seeing Sundar as somebody they can't relate with
I might agree but I'm not sure that this is news. Ever since Sundar became CEO there, there's been a somewhat widespread perception that he would focus on beancounting and running Google as a "mature" firm, with little or no innovation to speak of. (For that matter, you could even view this as a very reasonable response to increased challenges in the Internet advertising market, which is of course where Google makes most of their money.)
Re: Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
#7This reminds me of this sentence from a Wired article[0] in August:
> TGIF's transformation from candid conversation to press conference was pretty much complete.
As a Googler I'm totally not surprised this is happening. The writing has been on the wall for a very long time.
[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...
Re: Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
#8Now Google management is panicking and doing everything they can to reduce employee's
Re: Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
#9I wonder if companies like Google and GitHub that actively courted activists are now regretting their decision. For a long time it was common knowledge that you would try to keep stuff like that out of the workplace. The past 10 years have been an about face to that strategy and now we're seeing more or less complete chaos internally at these previously pro-politics (some kinds of politics) workplaces. My guess is th…
To be clear, "keep politics out of the workplace" is another way of saying "I'm okay with the status quo, and if you don't like it I don't want to hear about it at work".
Re: Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
#10Are all-hands meetings actually ever useful to anyone or ever more than merely internal PR?