Posted on 10/25/2018 6:55:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to all Google employees Thursday saying the company has fired 48 people over the last two years for sexual harassment. Of those 48 people, 13 were "senior managers and above" and none of them got an exit package when they were let go.
The email, which was obtained by CNBC, was in response to a bombshell New York Times story that said Google had shielded a handful of company executives, including Android creator Andy Rubin, from sexual misconduct allegations and offered massive payouts to leave.
Pichai also said there were newer tools at Google that employees can use to report sexual harassment or misconduct. Google employees can also report sexual misconduct anonymously, the email said
The email is also signed by Eileen Naughton, Google's vice president of people operations.
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Here’s the content of the email:
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From: Sundar
Hi everyone,
Today’s story in the New York Times was difficult to read.
We are dead serious about making sure we provide a safe and inclusive workplace. We want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate and we take action.
In recent years, we’ve made a number of changes, including taking an increasingly hard line on inappropriate conduct by people in positions of authority: in the last two years, 48 people have been terminated for sexual harassment, including 13 who were senior managers and above. None of these individuals received an exit package.
In 2015, we launched Respect@ and our annual Internal Investigations Report to provide transparency about these types of investigations at Google. Because we know that reporting harassment can be traumatic, we provide confidential channels to share any inappropriate behavior you experience or see. We support and respect those who have spoken out. You can find many ways to do this at go/saysomething. You can make a report anonymously if you wish.
We’ve also updated our policy to require all VPs and SVPs to disclose any relationship with a co-worker regardless of reporting line or presence of conflict.
We are committed to ensuring that Google is a workplace where you can feel safe to do your best work, and where there are serious consequences for anyone who behaves inappropriately.
Sundar and Eileen
ORIGINAL NEW YORK TIMES STORY HERE:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html
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How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’
The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim.
Given that management with Google has been badgering their female employees for *anything* that could be construed as “harassment” for quite some time, the number seems low.
Do no evil my a$$. Classic liberal newspeak - up is down down is up. Tolerance means quashing all speech you hate so that you can promote freakshows. Do no evil means doing everything that is immoral and corrupt.
Wouldn’t the fact that they hired these despicable employees in the first place be grounds for them to dissolve the company? Unforgivable.
Andy Rubin gave Android to the world and was forced out. What did the “MeToo” woman behind it contribute ?
And then rehired those Indians and Pakistanis as independent contractors.
Does anyone really think these aspiring Mark Cubans aren’t going to school for computer science for all those years so they can’t crush as much poon as possible when they get out and buy cars with doors that go up and not out?
Generally speaking, women in the work force are Trojan horses
Am anonymous complaint would take, like, what form? Would not the subject of the horrors be the one to file it?
Or will they just go straight to the Star Chamber?
perform[ed] oral sex in a hotel room in 2013.
So if true, that'd be what she contributed.
I see. Well... happy engineers make great products and Andy certainly created a great product. So I wouldn't rush to diminish her contribution.
The accused were probably labeled to make room for the aspiring
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