Source: Android Headlines
Google is a giant tech company with hundreds of thousands of employees. So, it must be difficult for the management team to know what each employee thinks about the organisation. That said, a recent survey suggests that there is more internal dissent than one might expect. Apparently, a significant percentage of Google employees admit that the company is a monopoly. There are also employees and tech professionals who want measures against it.
A survey conducted through Blind, a professional social network that allows employees to share opinions about their work anonymously, revealed data that might surprise you. The survey involved 2,316 tech professionals, including 322 Google employees.
Before going into details, it is useful to remember that Google lost a lawsuit for monopolistic practices in its search and ad services. This was a massive blow to the company, as it will have to change certain things.
“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” the verdict against Google reads. Also, over concerns about practices determined as monopolistic by the court, the US DoJ is considering “breaking up” the company, forcing it to divest itself of some of its core products and services. For now, the latter is only one of the proposed options.
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