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Employees of Microsoft call for companies to cancel their police agreements
A group of Microsoft employees calls on the Seattle-area corporation to terminate current law enforcement contracts in a recent letter to the Executive Board.
The letter was sent, as OneZero announced, by e-mail to young employees in the company from a Facebook group. This specifically addresses Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella and Chairman Kurt DelBene and has been forwarded to 250 supporters.
In the past, employees of Microsoft have coordinated activism in the same Facebook community, which now has nearly 10,000 members.
The email calls upon the organization, among the requests made, to sign contracts with police departments, support the Seattle Police Department's "defunding and demilitarisation" and support Black Lifes Matter Seattle.
This letter also calls on managers to relax their expectations of productivity and work a week of four days in the midst of the double COVID-19 crisis and ongoing civil disorder, protesting the killing of an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis by the police of George Floyd.
This letter mentions a number of instances of local brutality by police and calls for "companions, managers and leaders living miles away from Seattle." They are aimed at breaking down the gap and at the violence that has been sanctioned by the State in Seattle's urban centre.
To ensure the work of our staff in the middle of the public safety and mental health crisis, we need to be aware and compassionate at every level of management, the authors say.
Last week, Nadella described Nadella in an e-mail, which stationery would "watch internally, analyze the organization and do better." Nadella pledged an additional US$ 1.5 million in grants to the six campaigns for social equity and change in policing, including the Minnesota Freedom Fund, the Black Lives Matter Foundation and others.
The organization was also dedicated to offering additional grants to its employees.
