Google Says The Company Can No Longer Do This Anymore

Google announced this week that the company will no longer be able to hold weekly all-hands meetings amid growing workplace tensions.

The company is cancelling its weekly TGIF meetings and instead will have monthly meetings and separate forums. TGIF meetings were started by the company’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1999.

In an email to employees, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai alluded that it was meeting leaks and dwindling attendance that led to the decision.

The company confirmed to CNBC that it will be now holding monthly all-hands meetings that will be focused on business and strategy while holding separate town halls for “workplace issues.”

“In other places — like TGIF — our scale is challenging us to evolve,” Pichai said in a memo to employees this week. “TGIF has traditionally provided a place to come together, share progress, and ask questions, but it’s not working in its current form.”

“We’re unfortunately seeing a coordinated effort to share our conversations outside of the company after every TGIF,” the note reportedly reads. “I know this is new information to many of you, and it has affected our ability to use TGIF as a forum for candid conversations on important topics.

“People come to TGIF with different expectations,” the note also said. “Some people come to hear more about Google’s product launches and business strategies, others come to hear answers on other topics. By splitting the difference every week, we’re not serving either purpose very well.”

An email announcing the change had been previously reported by The Verge.

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