© Aly Song/Reuters Google revealed today it has fired 48 employees over sexual harassment allegations over the past two years. Google has announced that it has fired 48 employees for sexual harassment during the past two years and sent them away without severance packages, hours after a news report said it had protected some male executives facing sexual misconduct allegations and offered them large sums to leave the company.
Google has fired 48 employees over the last two years for sexual misconduct, the company's CEO Sundar Pichai told the New York Times. The prominent Internet search engine company had also protected three of its senior executives from sexual misconduct allegations by offering them payouts.
A spokesperson for Andy Rubin, the former Android executive, said he left of his own accord and has never been informed of any accusations of sexual misconduct. Rubin acknowledges having consensual sexual relationships with Google employees that didn't report to him, adhering to the boundaries drawn by Google policy at that time, according to the spokesperson, Sam Singer.
In his email, Pichai said Google adopted tougher policies in 2015. Those rules require all of Google's vice-presidents and senior vice-presidents to disclose any relationship with an employee, even if they don't work in the same department or have any other potential conflict.
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 , including 13 "senior managers and above," and none received an exit package.
© Stephen Lam/Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Google has adopted tougher policies on harassment since 2015. Despite Pichai's reassurances, the revelations about sexual harassment are a setback for a 20-year-old company that adopted "Don't Be Evil" as its motto early in its existence and now embraces "do the right thing " as its creed under the umbrella of its holding company, Alphabet Inc.
The phenomenon led to this year's release of Brotopia: Breaking Up The Boys Club of Silicon Valley, a book by Emily Chang that delves into the stories of women who say they have been sexually harassed at tech companies and venture capital firms.
Workplace Harassment Affects Nearly 1 In 5 Canadian Women, 1 In 8 Men: StatCan.
Canadian women are considerably more likely to face harassment in the workplace than men, according to data released Monday by Statistics Canada. The data, which comes from the agency's 2016 General Social Survey on Canadians at Work and Home, found nearly one in five women and more than one in eight men reported some sort of harassment on the job. Women are twice as likely as men to report physical violence against them at work, and more than five times as likely to report sexual harassment or unwanted sexual attention. © Provided by Oath Inc.
CALIFORNIA” Google Inc Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said on Thursday the company had fired 48 employees for sexual harassment over the past two years. Pichai sent an email to Google employees in response to a New York Times story that was published earlier in the day.