The four engineers have become a central example for other activists at the company who say Google is trying to snuff out anti-management messages. The other four workers filed a similar complaint jointly this month. “We dismissed an employee who abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool,” said Google spokeswoman Katie Hutchison. It recently elevated Google chief executive Sundar Pichai to the role of CEO of Google parent Alphabet, replacing co-founder Larry Page. Correction: An earlier version of this story had an incorrect day for when Kathryn Spiers was fired.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2019 14:03 UTC