Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announcing this big company reorganization in a new memo

consolidating teams to help develop AI products more quickly, but he also hinted at a new type

of workplace culture for Google.

Deirdreboza has the details in today's tech check.

Hey, D.

Hey Carl, good morning.

So let me give you a bit of context.

Google has really been the poster child of cuddly tech culture,

kombujan tap, masseouses is on staff that's a softer side of it

but also for many years it was tolerated an openness for employees to bring

social political causes to work, mix ethics and business.

Its founding mantra, even a biggest example of this,

don't be evil.

But we are increasingly seeing a tougher Google

and a tougher Sundar Pichai at the top,

necessitated perhaps by this increasingly

competitive race in AI. Pichai just sent a note to employees outlining how he is going to

streamline the business to simplify structure, improve velocity, and execution, but the most interesting part of his

memo that came at the end of it. He wrote, and I'm quoting him here, this is a business,

not a place to act in a way that disrupt coworkers or make them feel unsafe to attempt

to use the company as a personal platform or fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.

And guys, this was a not so veiled nod to what happened earlier this week.

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