{"id":2784,"date":"2025-01-29T17:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/silicon-valley-tech-workers-quietly-protest-their-bosses-embrace-of-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:15:59","slug":"silicon-valley-tech-workers-quietly-protest-their-bosses-embrace-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/silicon-valley-tech-workers-quietly-protest-their-bosses-embrace-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses\u2019 Embrace of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men\u2019s bathrooms at Meta\u2019s offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Days earlier, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/10\/technology\/meta-mark-zuckerberg-trump.html\" title=\"\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, Meta\u2019s chief executive, had made a series of changes at his company, aligning with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/27\/us\/politics\/mark-zuckerberg-trump-meeting.html\" title=\"\">President Trump\u2019s new administration.<\/a> As part of the moves, Mr. Zuckerberg eliminated diversity initiatives in the workplace \u2014 something that Mr. Trump had criticized \u2014 and removed sanitary products from the men\u2019s bathrooms, which had been provided for transgender and nonbinary employees who may have required them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To protest Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s actions, some Meta workers soon brought their own tampons, pads and liners to the men\u2019s bathrooms, five people with knowledge of the effort said. A group of employees also circulated a petition to save the tampons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The sanitary products were emblematic of the quiet rebellions that Silicon Valley workers have staged as they grapple with the rightward shift of their bosses. In a major departure for a tech industry that has typically leaned left and liberal, Mr. Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, Apple chief Tim Cook and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have embraced Mr. Trump, including by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/21\/business\/dealbook\/billionaires-trump-zuckerberg-bezos-musk.html\" title=\"\">appearing at his inauguration<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Their support for Mr. Trump has caused consternation across tech workforces, which have generally been pro-immigration and supportive of diversity and inclusion efforts. Yet rather than make loud, public protests to oppose the shift, many tech employees have instead carried out more subtle acts of defiance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Google, an employee was recently asked to approve an animation of fireworks for the company\u2019s search engine to help mark Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration. The employee made it clear in a coding system that they did so reluctantly because it was mandated by Mr. Pichai, two people with knowledge of the incident said. Google denied Mr. Pichai\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Amazon, some employees commiserated over Mr. Bezos\u2019 attendance at Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration \u2014 \u201cfather is at the inauguration,\u201d one person joked in an internal message that was viewed by The New York Times \u2014 but workers have mostly kept silent. At Apple, employees said it was surreal to see Mr. Cook on the dais with other tech leaders, especially after he made a rare political contribution of $1 million to Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The quiet dissent underlines who wields the power in Silicon Valley these days: the bosses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tech workers once called more of the shots because of a competitive labor market and freewheeling workplace cultures, but Mr. Zuckerberg and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/30\/technology\/layoffs-tech-industry.html\" title=\"\">other top executives have reasserted control<\/a>. They have raised performance <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/16\/technology\/amazon-return-to-office.html\" title=\"\">expectations<\/a>, clamped down on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/24\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg-trump-politics.html\" title=\"\">employee discussions<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/18\/technology\/google-firing-israeli-cloud-contract.html\" title=\"\">fired some<\/a> who they saw as activists. And with mass layoffs at tech companies in recent years \u2014 led by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/11\/technology\/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.html\" title=\"\">Elon Musk\u2019s shedding<\/a> of more than three-quarters of the employees at X, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022 \u2014 workers are now opting for muted subversion rather than rowdy protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe general feeling has been more anxiety among tech workers about their rights,\u201d said Shannon Liss-Riordan, a labor lawyer who has represented tech workers in lawsuits against Uber, IBM, X and other firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta and Amazon declined to comment, while Apple didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment. Jos\u00e9 Casta\u00f1eda, a Google spokesman, said the company\u2019s product team was behind its animation on Inauguration Day and that Google marks other \u201chighly searched events\u201d in the United States and elsewhere in a similar way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The subtle resistance from tech employees these days contrasts with their much more vocal behavior during Mr. Trump\u2019s first administration in 2017. When Mr. Trump ordered an immigration ban from a handful of predominantly Muslim countries that year, Silicon Valley workers held protests, circulated petitions and pushed executives to denounce the president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In response, Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Pichai issued repudiations of the administration\u2019s moves. Mr. Brin showed up at San Francisco International Airport to protest the immigration policy, alongside other tech colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the years since, that balance of power has shifted \u2014 especially as the battle to recruit tech employees became less fierce. Since 2022, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has cut nearly a third of its work force and continues to do layoffs. Amazon <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/20\/technology\/amazon-layoffs.html\" title=\"\">laid off 27,000 corporate workers<\/a> in 2022 and 2023, and has had some smaller layoffs since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta and Google also muffled worker dissent by deleting posts from internal message boards that deal with contentious political or social issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reassertion of power by top executives was particularly striking at Twitter, which Mr. Musk has reshaped. After buying the social network in 2022, he said employees needed to be \u201cextremely hardcore\u201d and work \u201clong hours at high intensity.\u201d Any low performers would be pushed out, he warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That made it difficult for employees to speak up. \u201cYou can have a thousand people at the company come together and say they don\u2019t like it, and it\u2019s not going to change any minds when they really aggressively make that turn,\u201d said Menotti Minutillo, a Twitter engineering manager who left in 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, tech moguls began throwing their support behind Mr. Trump. Mr. Musk endorsed Mr. Trump in July and donated more than <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/05\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-trump-rbg-election.html\" title=\"\">$250 million<\/a> to his campaign. Mr. Zuckerberg, Mr. Pichai and Mr. Bezos visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and their companies donated to his inauguration fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Employees have found understated ways to demonstrate their objections. In the case of the special fireworks animation that Google workers were directed to create to appear alongside searches for \u201cInauguration Day,\u201d it broke with the company\u2019s tradition of trying to stay nonpartisan. The employee responsible for approving the change made it clear that it was the boss that forced their hand, two people with knowledge of the incident said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWith the understanding given to me from my leadership that Sundar Pichai has personally required that this team launch this feature at this time, I give my approval,\u201d the Google worker wrote in the company\u2019s system for tracking updates to its code. The post was widely viewable inside the company; a copy of the message was reviewed by The Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Casta\u00f1eda, the Google spokesman, said the employee was \u201cmistaken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Google employees also took to Memegen, an internal message board where workers share images and memes, on Inauguration Day to post messages such as \u201cSundar attended the inauguration,\u201d two employees said. The posts were removed by internal content moderators, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSomething is deeply wrong when posting a clip or picture of an external event our execs attend violates internal policies,\u201d one employee wrote in response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Casta\u00f1eda said the company has \u201clong not allowed political debate on our internal platforms to help keep our global work force focused on our work. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The swing toward Mr. Trump was especially pronounced at Meta. This month, Mr. Zuckerberg promoted two top Republican executives to lead Meta\u2019s policy division, and appointed Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and an ally of Mr. Trump, to the company\u2019s board of directors. Mr. Zuckerberg then announced <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/01\/07\/business\/meta-fact-checking\" title=\"\">sweeping changes to Meta\u2019s policies<\/a>, including loosening rules on speech and ending diversity initiatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The shifts came in the midst of Meta\u2019s performance review season, so workers feared that voicing opposition would jeopardize their jobs, two employees said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, some employees who criticized the company or questioned Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s changes in a way that broke Meta\u2019s \u201cCommunity Engagement Expectations\u201d policy had their posts removed, two people said. The employees also received notes from the human resources department, which offered coaching on workplace issues and warned that further violations could result in termination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta also removed ways for workers to ask Mr. Zuckerberg about his actions. Ahead of a company Q&amp;A session scheduled for Thursday, the company said it would \u201cskip questions that we expect might be unproductive if they leak,\u201d according to a message viewed by The Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One question that employees were voting on to ask Mr. Zuckerberg was how women at Meta could bring \u201cmasculine energy\u201d to the workplace, according to a poll that had been posted internally. The question was a dig at Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, in which he said companies need more \u201cmasculine energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zuckerberg has previously announced that new layoffs would happen on Feb. 10. Meta\u2019s workers have retreated to private groups on Signal and other chat apps that are not controlled by the company to discuss ways to push back. They also brought back the sanitary products to the men\u2019s bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet after employees recently circulated the petition to return tampons, liners and pads to all restrooms on the company\u2019s Silicon Valley campus, the signatories received an email from the vice president of workplace services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While it had \u201cnot been the intention of Meta leadership to make employees feel unwelcome or excluded in our offices, at this point we do not have plans to revisit our on-site amenities offerings,\u201d the email said. \u201cBut I will share your feedback with leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Nico Grant<!-- -->, <!-- -->Karen Weise<!-- --> and <!-- -->Tripp Mickle<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/29\/technology\/tampons-silicon-valley-workers-protest.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men\u2019s bathrooms at Meta\u2019s offices. 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