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No place for politics in office: Google CEO gave message to employees after firing 28 employees




Sundar Pichai, CEO of tech company Google, has asked his employees to keep politics away from the workplace. The CEO said this in a blog post written for the company's employees after firing 28 employees from Google.

In this, he in a way ordered the employees to come to the office and do their work and not get involved in politics. In his note titled 'Mission First', Pichai said - the company's policy and expectations are clear. There is no place for politics in office.

Employees were opposing the Nimbus project

In fact, some employees were opposing the company's $1.2 billion Nimbus project, which is a joint project with Amazon. In this, it is being said that cloud service will be provided to the Israeli government and army.

Police arrested nine people after staging an hour-long sit-in at Google's offices in New York, California and Sunnyvale cities in protest against the project. He had livestreamed himself being escorted out of the premises. After this Google fired 28 employees.

American police arresting the protesting employees in Google's office.

American police arresting the protesting employees in Google's office.

What did Google CEO say in the note...

Pichai said in his note to employees, 'Google's culture has always been one that promotes open dialogue. This is what enables us to create great products and take action on good ideas. One thing to keep in mind is that after all we work in an office and some policies and expectations here are clear.

We work for a business. Therefore, the office is not a place where you interrupt the work of your co-workers and make them feel unsafe. Use the company as a personal platform or fight amongst yourselves over disruptive issues or discuss politics.

Google employees should remain logical. Our goal is to organize the world's information and remain a provider of reliable information to the world.

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