Google employees are rewriting workplace rules at one of the world’s largest tech companies.

Questions:

1. What precipitated Google’s requirement for contract companies to provide some benefits to the thousands of contract employees who work every day with Google’s full-time employees at company offices around the world?
2. What approximate percentage of workers at Google are contract workers?
3. Sustained pressure by workers at Google has caused reforms in what other areas?

Source:

Fernandez Campbell, A. (2019). Google will extend some benefits to contract workers after internal protest. Vox.com, April 4 (Retrievable online at
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/4/18293900/google-contractors-benefits-policy )