Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Google still needs to try a lot harder to do the right thing

Also in Any Other Business: a post-Brexit opportunity, the return of Bob Diamond, and a justifiable pay bonanza

issue 25 March 2017
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Shortly before agreeing, early last year, to pay token back taxes on a decade’s worth of UK-generated profits, Google also abolished its global slogan ‘Don’t be evil’. Instead it adopted a code of conduct that urged employees to ‘do the right thing’ — but at least in one important respect, they didn’t.

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