Google veteran who led employee movement leaves, claiming repeated retaliation

Claire Stapleton, an employee at Google’s YouTube who spearheaded employee-led policy change movements, has left the company after 12 years, claiming retaliation by company leaders. “The heads of my department branded me with a kind of scarlet letter that makes it difficult to do my job or find another one,” Stapleton wrote in a note shared on Medium on Friday morning. “If I stayed, I didn’t just worry that there’d be more public flogging, shunning, and stress, I expected it.”-- More...