The Google workplace has been disrupted by employee opposition to top-level decisions ranging from forging contracts with the US military to tailoring a version of the search engine for China, as well as the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations. — AP
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Nov 25 fired four employees on the grounds they had violated data security policies, but the tech titan was accused of persecuting them for trying to unionise staff.
The dismissals of the quartet – dubbed the "Thanksgiving Four" on social media – deepened staff-management tensions at a company once seen as a paradigm of Silicon Valley freedoms but now embroiled in numerous controversies.
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