Google grapples with the issue of trust, CEO Pichai said

In a leaked video, Sundar Pichai says it's "definitely gotten harder" to maintain employees' trust in management.

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In a leaked video of an internal meeting of Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledges companies have difficulty maintaining employee trust in management, especially as it grows, The Washington Post reported Friday. An executive also defended hiring former government officials who had been standing for a travel ban Muslim US President Donald Trump.

During the weekly meetings all-hands for employees, called TGIF, Pichai said he tried "to understand when I feel that something is causing breach of trust and see what we can do to improve" but found "it would have been difficult to do this The scale we did it, "reported the Post.

Pichai's comments follow a number of episodes of dissent employees about issues ranging from workplace culture for the Google project for the US military's efforts to build a censored search engine for China.

Last November, for example, more than 20,000 full-time and contract workers of Google runs out of 50 offices around the world to protest the handling of allegations of sexual violence company and error. And six months later, the workers staged a sit-in to protest against alleged retaliation for the walk-out.

This week, Google corporate leaders accused of developing internal tools to monitor employees' efforts to organize protests and discuss labor rights. Google called the claim "bogus firm" and said the tool was designed to resist internal spam-related calendars and events.

In the leaked video, Google's Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy Karan Bhatia addressed concerns about hiring Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials who will publicly defend Trump travel ban. Bhatia reportedly said the company will not work with Taylor on border issues, but in the field of counterterrorism and national security.

Congress House Committee on Homeland Security has encouraged various technology platforms to do a better job of removing the content of violence. In May, Google sent a letter to US lawmakers said it had reviewed more than 1 million videos terrorist suspects on the platform in the first three months of this year and spent "hundreds of millions of dollars per year" review the content.

Earlier this week, BuzzFeed News reported that some Google employees who are angry over the recruitment of Taylor. For criticism, move seemed to suggest on the face of the values, because when the ban Trump originally announced, Pichai has expressed reservations about it.

Google did not respond to requests for comment on the Post report about the leaked video.