How does a company balance its responsibility to provide a wholesome workplace environment and its duty to allow its employees to think freely? That’s never an easy question at the best of times, and these are not the best of times. Google, perhaps the highest-profile company in the world, was forced to answer that question this week when one of its engineers wrote a memo questioning its diversity policies — a memo that went viral. After an uproar, Google fired him.
The engineer, James Damore, is not a sympathetic figure. His memo — 3,000 words long and with a
The engineer, James Damore, is not a sympathetic figure. His memo — 3,000 words long and with a
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