“This week, our employer has been prominent in the headlines as Alphabet stock reached a record high. We, the workers who generate those profits, deserve to feel secure in our employment. While we celebrate the fact that our organizing is working, with our demand to offer voluntary buyouts before mandatory layoffs becoming a new company standard, we know that the fight is far from over. “

Apparently, Google has agreed to offer a VEP rather than issue more layoffs?

If the US becomes a democracy again, we might really have to worry about that! /s

This seems like surveillance disguised as a mostly useless feature. If you are in the office and logging into a video call, you’re probably using the hardware in a conference room and not your own laptop. That hardware will already display the room you are calling from to everyone on the call.

The only reason for this feature is to tattle on people who aren’t where they say they are.

Not for the average spineless middle manager. This puts the data in their hands without having to get any approval from anyone in IT

Tesla self driving is never going to work well enough without sensors - cameras are not enough. It’s fundamentally dangerous and should not be driving unsupervised (or maybe at all).