Google employee fires to promote diversity and inclusion
Google has fired the employee who wrote a controversial 10-page internal memo that criticizes the search giant for its efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in its workforce, the company has confirmed to ABC News.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees about the incident on Monday, saying the staffer violated the company’s Code of Conduct.
The post went over the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace, Pichai said. To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK, he added.
In the memo, which circulated on an internal company network and was first reported by Motherboard and published in full by Gizmodo on Saturday, the writer attributes gender inequality in t...