Survey: Most Google Employees Disagreed With Decision To Fire Memo Writer
10th August 2017
Most Google employees disagree with the company’s decision to fire the employee behind a memo on diversity, a survey released Wednesday shows.
Blind, an anonymous corporate networking app, surveyed its users from over 4,000 different companies on their thoughts regarding Google’s firing of software engineer James Damore, according to Business Insider. At Google, 56 percent of the 441 employees surveyed opposed their company’s decision to fire Damore.
Blind also reported employee opinions across other tech companies, which seem to support the fired software engineer.
A majority of Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon employees surveyed also opposed Google’s decision by margins of 57-43, 56-44, and 54-46, respectively. Nearly two-thirds of Uber’s employees surveyed also opposed the choice to terminate Damore.
Lyft, LinkedIn, and Apple, however, all favored Google’s decision by margins of 65-35, 53-47, and 51-49, respectively.