{"id":2224280,"date":"2024-04-18T14:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-ceo-breaks-silence-after-firing-28-employees-this-is-a-business\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T18:24:41","slug":"google-ceo-breaks-silence-after-firing-28-employees-this-is-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-ceo-breaks-silence-after-firing-28-employees-this-is-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s CEO speaks up after terminating 28 employees: &#8220;This is a business."},"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\">24<\/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-breaks-silence-after-firing-28-employees-this-is-a-business%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=2224280&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>Google CEO\u2064 Sundar Pichai spoke\u200b out about the dismissal of 28 employees protesting to sever ties with \u2064Israel. The CEO emphasized Google&#8217;s stance as \u2062a workplace \u200dfocused on tasks, not activism. The employees&#8217; demands included cutting business with Israel, leading to their termination due to policy \u2062violations. Google aims to maintain professionalism and uphold policies, denouncing disruptive behavior.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google CEO Sundar Pichai broke his silence on Thursday regarding the firing of 28 employees who occupied an executive\u2019s office in California and protested in the company\u2019s New York building to demand the company terminate a contract with Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cUltimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics,\u201d Pichai said in a company-wide email on Thursday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen we come to work, our goal is to organize the world\u2019s information and make it universally accessible and useful. That supersedes everything else and I expect us to act with a focus that reflects that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_725505\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-725505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Email by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai obtained by The Daily Wire where he addresses the anti-Israel protests at the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/google-announces-firing-of-28-anti-israel-employees-for-protesting-in-scathing-memo?topStoryPosition=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">termination of the employees<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  was announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-call-border-crisis-a-crisis-politico-orders-staff\/\" title=\"Don\u2019t Call Border Crisis A \u2018Crisis,\u2019 Politico Orders Staff\">company-wide memo<\/a> on Wednesday by Google vice president of global security, Chris Rackow who described their actions as \u201cunacceptable\u201d and \u201cextremely disruptive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several of the employees were seen <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/google-employees-arrested-while-occupying-ceos-office-with-anti-israel-demands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">being arrested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on their livestream after refusing to leave the offices for more than eight hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protests <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/google-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">were announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in internal emails to employees that shared a list of demands, including that Google drop its $1.2 billion contract with Israel for Project Nimbus, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-employees-occupy-office-of-boss-until-contract-with-israel-is-dropped\/\" title=\"Google employees stage a sit-in at CEO's office demanding termination of contract with Israel\">cloud-computing project<\/a> of the Israeli government.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_725397\" style=\"width: 862px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-725397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google employees getting arrested in the company\u2019s Sunnyvale, CA office for occupying the office of an executive to call for the company to terminate a contract with Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBehavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it,\u201d Rackow continued. \u201cIt clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to \u2026 we are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rackow stated that most of Google\u2019s roughly 180,000 employees \u201cdo the right thing,\u201d adding a warning: \u201cIf you\u2019re one of the few who are tempted to think we\u2019re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The demands made by protesters included that Google cease all \u201cbusiness with the Israeli apartheid government and military,\u201d and address the \u201chealth and safety crisis\u201d among workers who are rattled over their labor being used to \u201cenable a genocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The terminations appear to be Google\u2019s first hard steps to clamp down on the apparent rampant anti-Semitism throughout Google\u2019s workforce. In February, The Daily Wire <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kill-all-jews-google-grapples-with-internal-anti-semitism-in-months-since-hamas-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on internal anti-Semitic incidents taking place at Google, including the words \u201ckill all Jews\u201d found written on a bathroom wall inside its offices, and a Jewish employee being assaulted by anti-Israel protesters on one of their campuses. The Daily Wire also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-google-employees-hijack-international-womens-day-event-to-bash-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that a group of employees attempted to hijack an International Women\u2019s Day event to bash Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No Tech for Apartheid, the organization that helped organize the protests, called the terminations \u201cillegal\u201d and said workers who did not participate in the protest were also fired. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  just fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday\u2019s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests,\u201d the group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C54qFvUtuzY\/?img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote on Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cThis flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-announces-firing-of-28-anti-israel-employees-for-protesting-in-scathing-memo\/\" title=\"Google terminates 28 employees for protesting in support of Israel\">group denied accusations<\/a> of harassment and called Pichai and Kurian \u201cgenocide profiteers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe truth is clear: Google is terrified of workers coming together and calling for accountability and transparency from our bosses,\u201d the group continued. \u201cThey are choosing to reveal the falsity of Google\u2019s \u2018open culture\u2019 in order to get rid of a threat. The corporation is trying to downplay and discredit our power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The group said that the firings \u201conly serve as further fuel for the growth of this movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s CEO, Sundar Pichai, addressed the recent dismissal of 28 employees who protested in California and New York. 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