Silicon Valley technology firms are known for giving stock to their workers, a form of compensation that often helps employees feel invested in their companies.
A Verizon separation plan will reduce the company’s payroll by 10,400 employees, almost 7 percent of its workforce.
More than 30 Google employees have joined a petition protesting the company’s plans to build a search engine that complies with China’s online censorship regime.
Google will never be the same. For two years, regulators, lawmakers, academics and the media have pushed Silicon Valley to alter its world-swallowing ways.
The most remarkable aspect of the walkout at Google may not have been that an estimated 20,000 people participated or that it had global reach, or even that it came together in less than a week.