However, in some segments of Google’s workforce, the reaction to Walker’s argument was immediate and harsh. Employees also had access to notes taken during brainstorming sessions, candid project evaluations, computer design documents, and strategic business plans. Google has flaunted its openness as a recruiting tool and public relations tactic as recently as 2015. “As for transparency, it’s part of everything we do,” Laszlo Bock, then-head of Google human relations, said that year. Last month, Google fired four engineers who it said had been carrying out “systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work.

Source: Taipei Times December 14, 2019 15:56 UTC