Critical penalties for disruptive conduct
Googlers,
You’ll have seen reviews of protests at a few of our workplaces yesterday. Sadly, quite a few staff introduced the occasion into our buildings in New York and Sunnyvale. They took over workplace areas, defaced our property, and bodily impeded the work of different Googlers. Their conduct was unacceptable, extraordinarily disruptive, and made coworkers really feel threatened. We positioned staff concerned below investigation and reduce their entry to our techniques. Those that refused to go away had been arrested by legislation enforcement and faraway from our workplaces.
Following investigation, at this time we terminated the employment of twenty-eight staff discovered to be concerned. We’ll proceed to research and take motion as wanted.
Conduct like this has no place in our office and we won’t tolerate it. It clearly violates a number of insurance policies that each one staff should adhere to — together with our Code of Conduct and Coverage on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Requirements of Conduct, and Office Issues.
We’re a workplace and each Googler is predicted to learn our insurance policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and talk in our office. The overwhelming majority of our staff do the fitting factor. Should you’re one of many few who’re tempted to suppose we’re going to miss conduct that violates our insurance policies, suppose once more. The corporate takes this extraordinarily critically, and we are going to proceed to use our longstanding insurance policies to take motion in opposition to disruptive conduct — as much as and together with termination.
It is best to count on to listen to extra from leaders about requirements of conduct and discourse within the office.