[op03]

Big Corps have always been taken that stance. Google managers must be saying the same thing up and down the food chain.

But the fact that it hasn't stopped walkouts is interesting. It means there are influential people within who back the walkouts.

[rafiki6]

Or more likely, the corps realize that the walkouts are an ineffective form of virtue signaling and it would be a PR nightmare to do anything about them, so might as well let them happen since they really mean very little.

[SpicyLemonZest]

Walkouts are close enough to strikes that it would be pretty dangerous for a Google executive to try and stop them. (I think some of them may actually be strikes by law - I don't know the exact legal definition.)