google in the last 18 months or so has faced some or the other kind of employee dissent employees have raised their concerns over a project that google was supposedly working in china and also staged a walkout over how the company handled certain cases of sexual harassment now a report by bloomberg reveals that the company employees think they are under surveillance the bloomberg report cites an internal memo from a google employee where employees are concerned that the company is building a surveillance tool with the idea of quelling employee dissent this surveillance tool comes in the form of google chrome extension the extension can document activity at google and flags any employee who creates a calendar event with more than 10 rooms or 100 participantsthe staff memo states that the tool looks like an attempt of leadership to immediately learn about any workers organisation attempts the bloomberg report further reveals that a lot of staff were blocked from seeing the design documents related to the project google on its part told bloomberg that this is nothing but basic spam prevention in a statement issued to bloomberg the company said these claims about the operation and purpose of this extension are categorically false this is a popup reminder that asks people to be mindful before autoadding a meeting to the calendars of large numbers of employeesgoogle earlier this year had issued a new set of guidelines for its employees among other things that are now banned google employees are now not allowed to have raging debates over over politics or the latest news story in an official blog post the company laid down new guidelines and clearly states our primary responsibility is to do the work weve each been hired to do not to spend working time on debates about nonwork topics so no more talking about politics at work for google employees the mountain viewbased tech giant made clear to its employees that working for it is a responsibility the blog post further noted working at google comes with tremendous responsibility billions of people rely on us every day for highquality reliable information its critical that we honor that trust and uphold the integrity of our products and services employees were told to be responsible and whatever they might say they would be accountable for them what you say and do matters youre responsible for your words and actions and youll be held accountable for them noted the blog post