Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings

Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by bendbro on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:51PM (#21550147)

> And they shouldn't be surprised if a company that explicitly embraces activist engineers and forswears sources of revenue incompatible with that activism, a company that says "We will talk about politics at the workplace and this is our particular form of politics," one day beats the pants off them.

They should be surprised as it hasn't ever happened before. That's not to say that it won't or shouldn't happen, it just would be surprising.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by geofft on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:59PM (#21550197)

Didn't it happen with Google? Did they not build a more productive engineering department because they said "Bring your whole self to work, and bring your dog too" and not "We want your butt in a cubicle for 40 hours and this is just a job"?

I suspect if a company says "Bring your whole self to work, and we're actually serious about it, only bother applying if you think you'll gel with the folks already here," they'll still be able to hire as many people as they need and they'll deliver better products because of it.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by scarface74 on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:07PM (#21550247)

How are they “more productive” than the other tech behemoths?

I would argue that they are less productive seeing that after all these years they haven’t diversified from advertising - where 90% of their profit comes from - as compared to Apple or Microsoft or even Amazon.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by crooked-v on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:55PM (#21550454)

They're very productive, but much of that productivity gets spent reinventing the same products and services over and over.

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