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Following the debacle of James Damore’s ‘Diversity’ memo and subsequent firing,\u00a0Google decided a companywide townhall meeting was necessary to address staff concerns<\/strong>\u00a0with executives planning to field employees\u2019 questions voted on by their peers. The questions with the most votes would get asked.<\/p>\n A sampling of some of the most popular questions as of Tuesday, according to employees, reflects the spectrum of views on the memo and its fallout.<\/p>\n \nOne question asks\u00a0how Google will protect female employees who have been harassed online for criticizing the memo<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Another asks\u00a0whether Google lowers the bar for diversity candidates.<\/strong><\/em> And one asks\u00a0how Google plans to stop leaks to the press<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A person familiar added that an additional top question was:\u00a0\u201cWhat can we do to clarify for the entire company that there is one hiring bar,\u201d regardless of race or gender?<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n However,\u00a0as The Wall Street Journal reports<\/a>,\u00a0the meeting has been cancelled because right-wing websites published the names of employees who had proposed questions, raising security concerns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \nGoogle Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in an email to employees that the company decided to cancel the highly anticipated meeting after\u00a0employees expressed concerns \u201cabout their safety and worried they may be \u2018outed\u2019 publicly for asking a question in the Town Hall.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The implications of this are clear –\u00a0there’s a leaker at Google.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ironically, while the national liberal media speaks with one voice against Damore’s temerity to unleash some free speech bombs, and tech CEOs lined up arm in arm to support Pichai in his firing of Damore,\u00a0Google employees are split over management\u2019s dismissal of Mr. Damore,<\/strong>\u00a0according to interviews and informal polls of employees. The\u00a0Journal\u00a0<\/a>notes that some employees say Google executives didn\u2019t go far enough to denounce Mr. Damore\u2019s stance. Others say it is difficult to openly discuss diversity issues at the company because of a liberal bias among managers and colleagues at Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc.<\/p>\n There are \u201cdefinite mixed feelings\u201d inside the company, one employee said.<\/p>\n \n\u201cThere are people of all political stripes, and\u00a0there\u2019s outrage at the extreme of both ends of the spectrum and more sanity in the middle.\u201d<\/strong> \u201cBut ultimately the loudest voices on the fringes drive the perception and reaction.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nSome questions\u00a0complain about how conservatives aren\u2019t welcome at Google<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n
\nModerate liberals at the company don\u2019t believe the memo threatens the rights of women at the company, while moderate conservatives don\u2019t think his firing means they can\u2019t express themselves, this employee said.<\/p>\n