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Google has fired more than two dozen employees who protested this week against the company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. Google fires 28 employees for protesting Israel ...
Updated April 18, 2024 at 8:25 AM. Google has fired more than two dozen employees for protesting the company's $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud and ...
Jane Chung, a spokeswoman for the protesters, blasted the firings in a statement. "This evening, Google indiscriminately fired 28 workers, including those among us who did not directly participate ...
The contract raising the ire of some Google workers runs within the company's cloud computing division that is overseen by a former Oracle executive, Thomas Kurian. Under Kurian's leadership, cloud computing has emerged as one of Google's fastest-growing divisions, with revenue of $33 billion last year, a 26% increase from 2022.
Workers held sit-in protests last week at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. The company responded by calling the police, who made arrests. The group organizing the protests, No Tech For Apartheid, said the company fired 30 workers last week — higher than the initial 28 they had announced.
Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., posted a $74 billion profit last year and now employs about 182,000 workers worldwide — about 83,000 more people than in 2018 when it abandoned Project Maven.
James Damore at Portland State University in 2018. " Google's Ideological Echo Chamber ", commonly referred to as the Google memo, is an internal memo, dated July 2017, by US-based Google engineer James Damore ( / dəˈmɔːr /) about Google's culture and diversity policies. [1] The memo and Google's subsequent firing of Damore in August 2017 ...
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