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by hifromwork 797 days ago
Are you anthropomorphising companies now? Google the company can't be "out of touch" or "self-important". The engineers maybe, but they don't make PR decisions like this.

In this case the original source is an announcement on a "inside-google" blog, and starts with "Hi Googlers", so the target are clearly mostly Google engineers. It ended up on HN because it was repeated by arstechnica, a respected and well-known portal. And here we are discussing it. So maybe people in fact do care about this?

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> Are you anthropomorphising companies now?

Companies are groups of people, they're maintained by people, all their decisions are made by people and they only ever do things through their people's hands. They are as anthropomorphic as it gets.

> Google the company can't be "out of touch" or "self-important".

Such descriptions are precisely what is meant by the term "company culture"