13 Facts About Claire Stapleton

Claire Stapleton was born on 1985 or 1986 and is an American writer and marketer known for her involvement in the 2018 Google Walkout for Real Change.

Claire Stapleton is the author of the newsletter Tech Support.

Claire Stapleton began working for Google in 2007, after briefly considering a role with Teach For America, working on the internal communications team at their Mountain View, California campus.

Claire Stapleton was responsible for writing the company's talking points in weekly emails to employees.

Later, Claire Stapleton joined YouTube's team as a marketing manager in New York City.

Claire Stapleton said the meeting sparked her to start an email list for women at the company, which she said quickly grew to more than 1,500 members.

In January 2019, Claire Stapleton said she was demoted as part of a restructuring she said was vaguely communicated, losing half of her direct reports.

Claire Stapleton said her work was reassigned to others and that her manager ignored her, and she was pushed to resign.

When Claire Stapleton attempted to press human resources about the changes to her role and her work being delegated to other people, she said that the company advised her to go on medical leave, even though she wasn't ill.

Attendees reported that Claire Stapleton shared emails she said were sent from the executives to thousands of her coworkers disputing that she had been demoted.

On May 31,2019, while pregnant with her second child, Claire Stapleton resigned from the company in exchange for severance.

Claire Stapleton pointed out the facade of support around the walkout from Pichai and CFO Ruth Porat, who petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to limit protections for workers organizing via email a few days after the walkout.

In May 2020, Claire Stapleton started a newsletter for her agitated peers in tech called Tech Support, meant to offer guidance for other tech workers from her experiences over her 12 years at Google.