Microsoft fires two employees over breaking into its president’s office
On May 19, 2025, pro -Palestinian demonstrators protested posters and signs while protesting outside the Microsoft Construction Conference at the Seattle Congress Center in Washington, Seattle.
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Microsoft On Thursday, he said he had terminated two employees entering President Brad Smith at the beginning of this week.
The news comes after the existing and former Microsoft employee organizing a protest at the company’s building in Washington against the claim that the Israeli army uses the software of the Israeli army as part of the Gaza invasion.
For Apartheid, protesters of the Azure group entered Smith’s office and asked Microsoft to end Israel’s direct and indirect support.
One post In Instagram, no Azure for Apartheid said that Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle were fired by the company.
“Today, two employees were terminated after the serious violations of our rules of behavior,” one Microsoft spokesman said, “Today, two employees’ policies and behavior rules.” He said.
“These events are inconsistent with our expectations for our employees. The company continues to investigate these issues and cooperates with law enforcement officers.”
Following the protests, Smith claimed that protesters blocked people from the office, erected telephone listening devices and refused to leave until they were removed by the police.
For Apartheid, no Azure describes himself as “Microsoft workers to end Microsoft’s direct and indirect complexity in Israeli Apartheid and genocide”.
Guardian At the beginning of this month, the Israeli army reported that Microsoft used the Azure Cloud infrastructure to keep Palestinians’ calls for telephone calls and led to a third -party investigation authority as to whether it was used under the supervision of the company’s technology.
Smith said on Tuesday, how the company will “investigate and reach the truth”, he said.
According to Smith, no Azure for Apartheid organized protests around the company campus last week and led to 20 arrests in one day, and 16 of them never worked in Microsoft.
No Azure for Apartheid, this year, Microsoft’s building developer conference and the company’s 50th anniversary of the company did a series of actions. Bloomberg On Tuesday, a Microsoft director had reached the Federal Investigation Office on the protests.
Microsoft’s actions come after a series of protests against technology giant Google against labor conditions last year and the company’s contract for the Israeli government and the army for cloud information and artificial intelligence services. In this case, some employees gained access to the office of Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google’s cloud unit.
– Jordan Nove from CNBC contributed to this report.
