{"id":44831,"date":"2025-08-28T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/microsoft-fires-2-employees-after-they-broke-into-presidents-office\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:34:54","slug":"microsoft-fires-2-employees-after-they-broke-into-presidents-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/microsoft-fires-2-employees-after-they-broke-into-presidents-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fires 2 employees after they broke into president&#8217;s office"},"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 id=\"\">\n<p>Microsoft fired two employees on Wednesday after they broke into the office of its vice chair and company president, Brad Smith, earlier this week as part of a protest of the technology company&#8217;s purported links to Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The terminations came after a group of seven people broke into executive offices at Microsoft&#8217;s global headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday to hold a sit-in. No Azure for Apartheid, an advocacy group organized by Microsoft employees, said in an Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN1Kj6YZKLZ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a> that current and former workers from Microsoft, Google and Oracle were part of the group that occupied Smith&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, who were arrested by police on Tuesday, were demanding that Microsoft cut ties with Israel after The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> earlier this month that a unit of the Israeli military is using Microsoft&#8217;s Azure cloud platform to surveil Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two employees were terminated today following serious breaches of company policies and our code of conduct,&#8221; a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. &#8220;The first violated the Business Conduct Policy, participated in the unlawful break-in at the executive offices, and other demonstrations on campus, and was arrested by authorities on our premises on two occasions. The second was involved in the break-in at the executive offices and was subsequently arrested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN4Wg9-kfAA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a>, No Azure for Apartheid identified the employees as Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli.<\/p>\n<p>During a press <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2025\/08\/26\/press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">conference<\/a> on Wednesday, Smith said Microsoft has launched a formal investigation into Israel&#8217;s reported use of Azure. &#8220;We are committed to ensuring that our human rights principles and our contractual terms of service are upheld in the Middle East,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Protests against Microsoft over the Israeli military&#8217;s use of the company&#8217;s technology have been going on for months. Police last week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/microsoft-azure-gaza-israel-protests-49a0dd5905a1cf16eb3e19a98ca17d50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested<\/a> 18 people after a similar protest at the company&#8217;s Redmond headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Israel launched its war against Hamas in Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas-orchestrated terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023. The war has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/israel-gaza-hospital-attack-journalists-killed-idf-says-camera-was-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">killed more than 60,000 people<\/a><\/span> in Gaza, according to the Palestinian enclave&#8217;s Hamas-run Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Hamas-led attack almost two years ago killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and saw 251 others taken as hostages into Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">The Associated  Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/mary-cunningham\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Mary  Cunningham<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. 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