Google's Had It Up to Here With the Leaks, Leaked Email Shows

Google has announced an effort to batten the hatches and dam the leaks in a company-wide email, which has also been leaked to the Verge.

The rest of the letter kind of couches this as an effort to restructure to better prioritize time, separating out business from other topics, while Google finds new ways to communicate at scale.

Last month, a Google staffer reported that a new internal Chrome extension flagged all employee meetings booking over 10 rooms or inviting over 100 employees. Google insisted this was a reminder to be mindful of auto-adding people to meetingsbut days earlier, Recode reported that Google had attempted to kill a union-organizing meeting by employees in Zurich.

There were the protests and resignations over Googles decision to contract with the Department of Defense .

This weeks letter, which a Google spokesperson told Gizmodo is authentic, also states that Google will keep holding regular Social TGIFs in offices around the world and will hold town halls on important workplace issues.

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