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Can Employees Change the Ethics of Tech Firms?
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Can Employees Change the Ethics of Tech Firms?

Knowledge at Wharton·@HashtagPLUS·6 months ago
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Many companies, it seems, are growing their conscience — or at least, their employees are. Workers are exercising greater muscle when they see their employer taking on a contract they perceive as involving morally questionable work, and they are taking action. At Google, employees recently protested their own company’s bid to develop a search engine for China that censors results based on terms blacklisted by the government. Meanwhile, workers at Microsoft have petitioned their bosses to cancel the company’s contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.…

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