Google culture war escalates as era of transparency wanes


The fight also illustrates the lack of trust between Google’s leadership and some of its employees, according to interviews with over a dozen current and former employees, as well as internal messages shared with Bloomberg News on the condition it not publish the names of employees who participated. — AP

Each morning, workers at Google get an internal newsletter called the "Daily Insider.” Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, set off a firestorm when he argued in the Nov 14 edition that the 21-year old company had outgrown its policy of allowing workers to access nearly any internal document.

"When we were smaller, we all worked as one team, on one product, and everyone understood how business decisions were made,” Walker wrote. "It's harder to give a company of over 100,000 people the full context on everything.”

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