Google fires four employees at center of worker organization efforts

The rally was in support of employees Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland, both of whom had been placed on administrative leave in the wake of their previous protests against the company.

In a post on Medium, organizers said that, traditionally, looking at documents outside of one's own job scope is par for the course at Google:

And lets be clear, looking at such documents is a big part of Google culture; the company describes it as a benefit in recruiting, and even encourages new hires to read docs from projects all across the company.