In 2018, Claire Stapleton helped spearhead a walkout of around 20,000 Google employees. The protest was a response to a New York Times story detailing how the company had paid multimillion-dollar exit packages to executives accused of sexual misconduct.
Now she’s back with a memoir, “Don’t Be Evil,” that pulls back the curtain on her time in the trenches at Google. It comes as the company faces renewed employee activism over its work with the Pentagon and ICE, and departing talent as it reshuffles its AI leadership.
Stapleton joined Google in 2007 and worked on internal communications, where her quippy, humorous companywide emails earned her…
