> “You’re allowed to put posters up on the wall to help organize your workers, and this can be seen as kind of a digital extension of that,”
Well, that digital extension belongs to Google. If she wanted to rally company developers she could have used email, created her own website, slack account, WhatsApp, telegram, etc. There are plenty of channels that don't belong to Google.
I doubt anyone in upper management asked her to do this, maybe she took too much freedom and abused her privileged access?
"Oh but someone else approved that PR", well probably they ganged up.
She is a Security Engineer, not HR/Management.
If this approved by HR/Management, there would be no problem at all but I think she/they did whatever they wanted without thinking about it.
As an employee, you have no right to put up posters anywhere in the workplace unless condoned by your employer. She must be conflating this concept with the requirement for your employer to put up posters informing employees of their rights to unionize when there's a unionization effort.
I don't think she'd even have to do that. Google apparently has internal communication channels for employees where this topic would actually be appropriate, there's probably legal precedent that they couldn't stop people using them, and if I remember correctly from previous news coverage their employees have in fact been using them in their attempts at union organizing.
Well, that digital extension belongs to Google. If she wanted to rally company developers she could have used email, created her own website, slack account, WhatsApp, telegram, etc. There are plenty of channels that don't belong to Google.
I doubt anyone in upper management asked her to do this, maybe she took too much freedom and abused her privileged access? "Oh but someone else approved that PR", well probably they ganged up.
She is a Security Engineer, not HR/Management.
If this approved by HR/Management, there would be no problem at all but I think she/they did whatever they wanted without thinking about it.