Google has fired an employee who wrote an “anti-diversity manifesto” over the weekend.
The employee’s dismissal followed an email earlier in the day from Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai to the company’s employees, saying that the memo writer violated company policy, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday night. Parent Alphabet Inc. hasn’t named the employee.
The memo that rocked the tech company after it was shared with fellow employees criticized Google’s efforts to increase diversity, arguing that the program discriminated against some employees.
“Weย strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it,” Pichai said in his email to staff.