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Google Workers Rise Up: Inside the Protests

Google has long had a special relationship with staff, encouraging employee input on all sorts of internal matters

Google Workers Rise Up: Inside the Protests
Google employees walkout of company headquarters to protest how the tech giant handled sexual misconduct in New York, U.S. (Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg)  

(Bloomberg) -- Google has long had a special relationship with staff, encouraging employee input on all sorts of internal matters. For the last two decades, this approach has worked well. But after a series of controversies and protests in the last two years, some workers are openly at war with Google. This week on Decrypted, editor Alistair Barr speaks to Irene Knapp, a senior software engineer who has had a front-row seat during the tumult inside the company.

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To contact the editor responsible for this story: Aki Ito at aito16@bloomberg.net, Lindsey Kratochwill

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