Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest

Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by gbil on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:52AM (#21636873)

There are 2 points here 1. The visibility of the activity. I have no experience with google calendar at this level but the normal from my perspective would be that only free/busy information is by default available. If the company wants every info to be available then it might be that the employees were not adequately informed about this in order either to not enter private info in their calendar or mark them explicitly as private

2. The fact that this kind of information made it outside of the company. I believe this is the consequence of making such info available to all and in a company with so many thousand employees like it or not there are some bad apples that will take advantage of everything

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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by eloisant on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:14AM (#21636981)

I'm using Google calendar at work, and I guess the version Google uses internally is not that different.

You can decide whether everyone can see the details or whether they just see "busy" everywhere.

I think it's good to see the title, for example if I have a meeting about the feature Foobar and a coworker sees that, he might want to reach out to say he's got some insight about it.

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