Google CEO Cuts Vacation Short To Deal With Crisis Over Diversity Memo
CEO Sundar Pichai says that he supported the right of workers to express themselves but that a senior engineer's memo had gone too far. The memo's author says he is weighing legal action.
by Laura Sydell
Aug 08, 2017
1 minute
Google CEO Sundar Pichai cut his the vacation short and returned to the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters as criticism mounted over a senior engineer's controversial memo condemning Google's diversity initiatives. The engineer was subsequently fired.
The memo, which some inside
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