Literally every other company does this. I'm not sure what is the story here - the lawyers are coaching the employees not to put anything that can be used against the company in writing? The author tried to make it about Google for whatever reason.
There have been a handful of these. Somebody leaks the communications training and then somebody writes an article is shock that a company with 150,000 employees has communication training.
Every company does this? I’ve worked at quite a few Fortune 500’s and never experienced this.
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That's an indictment of every other company as well then. The point is about anti-competitive ideology. If "anything that can be used against the company" also includes anti-competitive thinking, then that's the conflict.