{"id":1142671,"date":"2021-12-22T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142671"},"modified":"2021-12-22T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:34:18","slug":"google-ceo-sundar-pichai-addresses-loss-of-candor-honesty-humility-and-frankness-from-company-execs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-addresses-loss-of-candor-honesty-humility-and-frankness-from-company-execs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO Sundar Pichai Addresses Loss of \u2018Candor, Honesty, Humility and Frankness\u2019 from Company Execs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-ceo-sundar-pichai-addresses-loss-of-candor-honesty-humility-and-frankness-from-company-execs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142671&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">During a virtual meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed a question from an employee in which they asked if \u201ccandor and honesty\u201d would be returning to internal discussions.&nbsp;The question, which was supported by almost 700 Google coworkers, was met with a mealy-mouthed response from Pichai, who said: \u201ctrust and candor has to go both ways,\u201d referring to internal leaks that Google has faced.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/21\/google-ceo-addresses-employee-concerns-over-loss-of-candor-and-honesty.html\">reports<\/a> that while addressing employees at a virtual year-end meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai reviewed questions from staff about the company. One employee reportedly asked whether \u201ccandor and honesty\u201d would be returning to internal discussions. The question, which was supported by almost 700 Google coworkers, was met with a mealy-mouthed response from Pichai, who said:&nbsp;\u201cI understand the sentiment behind the question.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_14851802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Google-CEO-Sundar-Pichai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14851802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Google-CEO-Sundar-Pichai.jpg\" alt=\"Google CEO Sundar Pichai\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google CEO Sundar Pichai (pool\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9620810\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Google-walkout-protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9620810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Google-walkout-protest.jpg\" alt=\"Google walkout protest\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google walkout protest (Bryan R. Smith\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pichai read the questions from Google\u2019s internal employee message board system called Dory. Pichai read out one of the questions:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like responses to Dory have gotten increasingly more lawyer-like with canned phrases or platitudes, which seem to ignore the questions being ask,\u201d Pichai read. \u201cAre we planning on bringing candor, honesty, humility, and frankness back to Dory answers or continuing down a bureaucratic path?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That question received 673 upvotes from fellow employees. Pichai responded to it stating:&nbsp;\u201cI understand the sentiment behind the question.\u201d He later added: \u201cI think there are many reasons to some of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s internal office culture that was once based on a joyful atmosphere and free discussion has reportedly become more serious in recent years as the company has continued to grow, becoming one of the largest tech firms in the world. Employees also began to develop a distrust of management following reports that executives had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/11\/01\/thousands-of-google-employees-worldwide-join-walkout-protest-against-sexual-harassment\/\">overlooked sexual harassment allegations<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/04\/05\/google-employees-protest-working-with-pentagon-to-make-drones-more-accurate\/\">pursued government deals that radical progressive employees opposed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google soon began cracking down on internal discussions and firing employees who criticized company policies or organized groups with fellow workers. In 2019, some employees referred to the company as \u201cunrecognizable\u201d compared to when they started there.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai further noted at the recent meeting that the pandemic has made communication at the company more challenging.&nbsp;\u201cWe are obviously communicating at scale now \u2014 to over 150,000 people and particularly through the pandemic, doing it all remotely,\u201d Pichai said. \u201cI\u2019ve noticed more people reading off screens during the pandemic and so I think some of it contributes to answers feeling canned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pichai further discussed the more cold and measured responses to employees in recent months, stating:&nbsp;\u201cI think people are always nervous to answer in this setting. Sometimes, I do think that people are unforgiving for small mistakes. I do think people realize that answers can be quoted anywhere, including outside the company. I think that makes people very careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pichai added that \u201ctrust and candor has to go both ways,\u201d referring to internal leaks that Google has faced. \u201cYou have to work really hard to maintain it at scale,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/21\/google-ceo-addresses-employee-concerns-over-loss-of-candor-and-honesty.html\">CNBC here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a virtual meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed a question from an employee in which they asked if \u201ccandor and honesty\u201d would be returning to internal discussions.\u00a0The question, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}