Claire Stapleton, one of the organizers of the watershed Google Walkout protest, has penned a first-person essay for Elle magazine detailing her time at the search giant and the series of events leading up to her resignation this past June after alleged retaliation from upper management.It’s well worth a read to understand the fraught state of Google’s culture.
Last week, tens of thousands of Google employees around the globe a took part in a largely women-led walkout, in response to a string of sexual harassment claims — but the labor history behind that kind of strike is longer than the company may realize.
Roughly 200 Google employees and supporters rallied to protest the suspension of two colleagues, Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland, for allegedly accessing internal information they shouldn’t have in the course of worker activism. Now, it appears Google has fired both those workers, as well as two other employees who participated in the rally.