In this excerpt from her book *Don't Be Evil*, former Google marketing manager Claire Stapleton recounts how she helped organise the 2018 Google Women's Walkout, a mass protest against the company's handling of sexual harassment claims. The account offers a first-hand look at how a single Google Group snowballed into a coordinated global action within days, illustrating how internal employee networks can rapidly mobilise against corporate leadership.

Stapleton describes starting a "womens-walk" Google Group that attracted around 200 members within its first weekend, most of them strangers who nonetheless felt an immediate sense of solidarity. Amid unrelated work demands, including a lobbying push around EU copyright legislation and routine social media tasks, she and colleagues such as project manager Tanuja quickly decided to hold the walkout on Thursday 1 November 2018, deliberately choosing a date before the US midterm elections on 6 November to capitalise on momentum and collective anger.