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The news: Dialogue between Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Google employees became tense during a company-wide all-hands meeting this week. As Pichai elaborated on the company’s “simplicity sprint” initiative, he also fielded tense employee questions about the company’s travel and entertainment budget cuts, potential layoffs, and calls for more productivity, per CNBC. One employee accused Google of “nickel and diming” its workforce despite “record profits and huge cash… Source link

Dissatisfied Google employees have put top executives on the hot seat a few times this year.  Most recently, they interrogated CEO Sundar Pichai at an all-hands meeting this week about the company’s spending cuts amid a challenging economic climate, CNBC first reported.  At the meeting, employees submitted questions via an internal Google tool, and fellow workers then up-voted popular questions for executives to answer. When asked about why the company is limiting certain… Source link

Workers said they worry that tech from Google and Amazon could be used to surveil Palestinians. Richard Nieva Hundreds of Google and Amazon workers on Thursday staged protests around the country to speak out against the two tech giants’ cloud contracts with the Israeli government, fearing the military could use the technology to surveil Palestinians. The demonstration stretched across four U.S. cities — San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Durham, North Carolina — as workers… Source link

Chandravongsri’s parents were born in Laos, where he still has extended family. He has seen first-hand how CIA-led bombing campaigns during the 1960s and 1970s left a deadly legacy of unexploded ordnance that still threatens lives today, a problem seen in many war zones, including Gaza. He says reading the AI capabilities included in Project Nimbus “really scared me.” Chandravongsri is far from the only worker in Google’s vast, international workforce whose background provides a… Source link

Comment on this story Comment Google is famous for its cafeterias, which serve its legions of programmers and product managers everything from vegan poke to gourmet tacos — free. But the cooks and servers behind those meals are generally contractors who work for other companies, and do not get the generous perks and benefits reserved for Google employees. So over the past few years, thousands of them have unionized, securing higher wages, retirement benefits and free platinum health care… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion healthcare benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online. Google parent company Alphabet had pledged to pay travel and other health care costs for employees seeking an out-of-state abortion and to help some workers relocate after the U.S. Supreme Court repealed the constitutional… Source link

Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion health care benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online. Google parent company Alphabet had pledged to pay travel and other health care costs for employees seeking an out-of-state abortion and to help some workers relocate after the U.S. Supreme Court repealed the constitutional right to an abortion. The June decision… Source link

New York CNN Business  —  Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections for users and contractors in a post-Roe world, according to a statement Thursday from a union representing the workers. In the petition, which was signed by more than 650 workers at the company and addressed to several executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai,… Source link

Comment on this story Comment Happy Thursday! As always, send news tips and predictions for who won’t survive the “House of the Dragon” premiere to cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Below: The FTC threatens to sue an adtech firm, and Australia’s top court sides with Google in a defamation case. First: Workers demand Google expand abortion protections post-Roe Google staffers are calling on the tech giant to take greater steps to protect workers’ reproductive health, including by expanding… Source link

Workers at Google’s parent company Alphabet want to better protect people’s abortion-related location data and search history. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption … Source link