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Google’s Sundar Pichai Has No Time for an Employee Rebellion
The tech giant’s business challenges have deservedly curbed its acceptance of political activism on company time.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wants to focus on work.
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It has become clear over the last year that Silicon Valley companies, which for the longest time could keep Wall Street happy with enormous growth alone, finally had to begin existing in the real world. This meant layoffs, cost savings and doubling down on profit. It also meant trimming wild moonshot ideas that sounded cool but burned through cash.
And it meant putting to bed the tedious myth that these companies ever cared about employees bringing their “whole selves” to work.