The Daily Mail – Google was forced to backtrack on its use of the word family after staff at its California headquarters kicked off [argued angrily] because the term was used in the context of having children, it has been revealed.
The tech giant experienced a backlash from its own employees in March 2017 after a presentation about a product aimed at young people seemed to replace the term with the word ‘family’, leaving out various groups.
Far-right publication, the Daily Caller News claimed on Wednesday to have viewed internal communications from an insider in Mountain View where one employee stormed out of a meeting and called the company’s poor choice of wording “offensive, inappropriate, homophobic, and wrong.”
