European tech giant SAP reassures staff alarmed by Trump travel ban


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 31 Jan 2017

Striking a balance: SAP is reassuring its employees while also seeking to avoid tussling publicly with the new US administration.

FRANKFURT: German software maker SAP SE, Europe's largest technology company, criticised Donald Trump's immigration curbs, saying the United States, its biggest market, has drifted away from the nation's principles of opportunity and equality.

In a letter addressed to "all our nervous families wondering about your place in the world" chief executive Bill McDermott told SAP's 84,000 global employees that "we are always in your corner", while emphasising its own non-discrimination policies.

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