A View of the Google Employee Resistance Movement

August 5, 2018

I read “Googlers Bristle at Censoring Search for China.” The main idea is that Google is experiencing “widespread employee anger.” Call me old fashioned, but I thought that when a person accepted a job for money and benefits, part of the deal was to work on tasks one’s boss handed out. The write up states:

Google was scurrying to stop leaks and quell outrage inside the company over what had been a stealth project prior to a report this week by news website The Intercept.

I like the “scurrying” metaphor.

Unnamed sources allegedly said:

“Everyone’s access to documents got turned off, and is being turned on [on a] document-by-document basis,” a source told the news site. “There’s been total radio silence from leadership, which is making a lot of people upset and scared. … Our internal meme site and Google Plus are full of talk, and people are a.n.g.r.y.”

The write up reveals that Google has 700 employees in three offices in China.

Is it possible for China to direct its attention to these employees. Monitoring might communicate a hint that finding work at another company might be a good idea?

Of course, here in rural Kentucky, it seems possible, maybe likely.

Net net: Google has a couple of challenges to which to respond: Management and getting a chunk of what may be one of the largest markets in the world.

No big deal for an online advertising company selling Loon balloons and waiting for money to roll in from an investment in baby Segways.

But what about employee resistance? What about some actual sources?

Stephen E Arnold, August 5, 2018

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