He writes that employees come to TGIF with different expectations, with some looking to hear about product launches and business strategies and others looking for answers on other topics.
He also says that there has been a coordinated effort to share our conversations outside of the company after every TGIF and that those efforts have affected our ability to use TGIF as a forum for candid conversations on important topics.
While the note doesnt mention any leaks specifically, the company has been roiled by employee activism in recent years, as workers have protested issues like Googles work with the Pentagon and plans for a censored Chinese search engine.
Google has, for years, taken stern action against leaks, even going so far as to set up a dedicated email address for employees to report on other workers who may be sending information externally. But the crackdown seems to have escalated even further recently: earlier this week, Bloomberg News reported that an employee was fired for sending names and details of other employees to the media.
The last month has made me proud to be a Googler in so many ways: weve substantially improved our core Search product thanks to our advances in ML. And weve made an incredible breakthrough in quantum computing that will give us an entirely new way of solving computational problems in the years ahead.
One specific thing wed like to do is share more videos to give insight into the work our teams are doing.