"unsafe" is clearly hyperbolic here, their physical safety isn't threatened. Their "safe place" AKA ideologic echo chamber? Sure.

> A Google spokeswoman said the company is investigating the employees who were placed on leave. One of them had searched for and shared confidential documents outside the scope of their job, while the other tracked the individual calendars of staff working in the community platforms, human resources, and communications teams, she said. The tracking had made the staff in those departments feel unsafe, the spokeswoman said.

This sounds like actual harassment of individual employees who happen to work in a department that is seen as "the enemy".

They can't stand a little taste of their own medicine.

Maybe this will wake some people up. Up to now their mantra was "we're not doing anything illegal." Yes, it might not be illegal (at least not yet), but you're acting against the wishes and interests of your users, and you can clearly notice it when the same machine is used against you.