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I don't know how much I think it would have an effect. Google employees didn't know about the surveillance projects because they found out on-site, they knew about them because Google chose to make them known. Plenty of companies keep secrets from their employees, and those secrets largely remain safe despite employees working on premises. And outside of Google, who had until recently a very open culture of critiquing decisions, almost all calling-out happened through non-company channels.

And is it really so much easier to get rid of them? Presumably they'll have the same legal protections they previously did, and having to be physically removed from the building isn't exactly a major limitation on firing.