Google employees from across the globe are forming a union alliance, weeks after more than 200 workers at the search engine giant and other units of parent company Alphabet formed a labor union for U.S. and Canadian offices. From a report: Alpha Global was formed in coordination with UNI Global Union, a union federation that represents about 20 million workers globally,…
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Google Employees Try Baking Recipes Created by AI
“Behold the cakie: It has the crispiness of a cookie and the, well, ‘cakiness’ of a cake.” So says a triumphant blog post by Google Cloud’s developer advocate and an applied AI Engineer for Google’s Cloud AI. “We also made breakies, which were more like fluffy cookies, almost the consistency of a muffin” (or bread). Food and Wine explains the project…
Google Will Try ‘Hybrid’ Work-from-Home Models, as Most Employees Don’t Want To Come in Every Day
Google is rethinking its long-term work options for employees, as most of them say they don’t want to come back to the office full-time. From a report: Sixty-two percent of Google employees want to return to their offices at some point, but not every day, according to a recent survey of employee office preferences the company released this week. So Google…
Learn how Katie earned her Google IT Support Professional Certificate and landed a new job in IT
My name is Kaitie, and I work as a Cloud Support Specialist at Adar IT in Skokie, IL. My undergraduate degree was in computer science, and while I was in school, I made the decision to enroll in the Google IT Support Professional Certificate in the hope that it would open up more career opportunities […]
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Learn how Kaitie earned her Google IT Support Professional Certificate and landed a new job in IT
My name is Kaitie, and I work as a Cloud Support Specialist at Adar IT in Skokie, IL. My undergraduate degree was in computer science, and while I was in school, I made the decision to enroll in the Google IT Support Professional Certificate in the hope that it would open up more career opportunities […]
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Google Announces 100,000 Scholarships for Online Certificates in Data Analytics, Project Management and UX
Google today announced three new online certificate programs in data analytics, project management and user experience design. From a report: The certificates are created and taught by Google employees, do not require a college degree, can be completed in three to six months and are offered through the online learning platform Coursera. Google says it will consider all of its certificates…
Why One of Kubernetes’ Creators Moved From Google To Microsoft
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: One of the three Google employees who created Kubernetes — the open source container-orchestration platform now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation — was software engineer Brendan Burns. But in 2016 Burns became an engineer at Microsoft (where since March he’s been a corporate vice president at Microsoft). This week in a new podcast interview…
Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation
The New York Times is reporting that Alphabet’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, is leaving the internet giant amid an investigation into his relationships with women who worked at the company. From the report: In an email sent to employees at Google and Alphabet, Mr. Drummond, who joined Google in 2002, said he planned to leave Alphabet at the end of…
Engineer Says Google Fired Her For Browser Pop-Up About Worker Rights
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Another former employee has accused Google of violating federal labor law by firing her for activities related to labor organizing. In a Tuesday blog post, Kathryn Spiers says Google terminated her after she created a browser tool to notify employees of their organizing rights. Spiers says she worked on a Google security…
Google Under Investigation For ‘Thanksgiving Four’ Firings, Allegedly Discouraging Unions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has started a new investigation into Google’s labor practices. An agency spokesperson confirmed to CNBC Monday that the probe, which will include whether Google violated labor laws when it recently fired four employees, has officially commenced. It will also look at whether Google discouraged employees from engaging…