Google Workers Rise Up: Inside the Protests
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Bloomberg
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🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Osage County, Oklahoma is getting a lot of attention right now. |
| 0:04.4 | It's the setting of Martin Scorsese's latest film, |
| 0:07.8 | Killers of the Flower Moon. |
| 0:10.0 | The movies based on a book about the 1920s Osage murders, |
| 0:14.1 | when white men poured into Osage County |
| 0:16.4 | and killed Osage people for their oil wealth. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Rachel Adams Heard, the host of InTrust, a podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Media. |
| 0:26.8 | For over a year I was reporting a different story about other ways white people got |
| 0:32.1 | Osage, land, land and wealth and how a prominent ranching family in Osage County became one of the biggest landowners here. |
| 0:40.0 | Their ranching empire was built on land that at the turn of the century was all owned by the Osage Nation. |
| 0:47.0 | So how did they get it? |
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| 0:55.3 | Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | Google is in the midst of a major upheaval. |
| 1:02.5 | It's not an understatement to say it could change the way the world's largest internet company operates forever. |
| 1:08.8 | Since it was founded, Google has had a special relationship with its employees, |
| 1:16.0 | especially the engineers who write the software code that runs the services we love and have come to depend upon. |
| 1:22.0 | Things like online search, maps, |
| 1:24.7 | Android phones and the Chrome web browser. Google pays these people very well. |
| 1:29.1 | Famously working at Google also comes with tons of perks like swimming pools and free food. |
| 1:34.0 | But what's really unique is the amount of responsibility and autonomy the company gives staff. |
| 1:39.0 | Google shares an unusual amount of internal company information with its employees |
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