Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings

Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by siruncledrew on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:45PM (#21548577)

It's very hard to actually have private, internal dialogues in a 'townhall setting' among an employee group so large.

Recordings and videos could get leaked at any time by an employee to the media or on social media, which will further blow it up (ahem, like with Facebook) or perhaps take things out of context or cause more chaos.

Google actually trying to have a serious - and not just PR/HR-bullshit - discussion about highly nuanced, opinionated, divisive topics relevant to the workplace in this type of mass-meeting setting is basically playing with fire out in the open.

(This isn't a take on yes/no politics in the workplace, just an interpretation from Google/Facebook)

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by asveikau on Friday November 15, 2019 @10:15PM (#21550756)

> Recordings and videos could get leaked at any time by an employee to the media or on social media, which will further blow it up (ahem, like with Facebook)

Worth clarifying a point. The leakers didn't make Zuck say stupid things.

I can understand that having scrutiny on every single communication is probably pretty hard, but people often neglect that the best PR scandal avoidance mechanism is to not do stupid things.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by throwaway579315 on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:17PM (#21550985)

What did Zuckerberg say in the leaked audio that was stupid?

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