Google says it's fired 48 people for sexual misconduct, amid reports it paid $90 million to an accus
Source: Washington Post
Google says it’s fired 48 people for sexual misconduct, amid reports it paid $90 million to an accused harasser
By Brian Fung October 25 at 5:50 PM
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said the company is “dead serious” about dealing with allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct in an internal memo sent to employees on Thursday and obtained by The Washington Post.
As many as 48 people have been fired from Google over sexual harassment allegations over the past two years, Pichai said, 13 of whom were senior managers and above.
“None of these individuals received an exit package,” he wrote in the memo, which was co-signed by Eileen Naughton, vice president of people operations.
The memo comes after the New York Times reported Thursday that Google paid Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android mobile operating system, $90 million after he left the company in 2014 over an allegation of sexual misconduct. Google also invested heavily in Rubin’s next project, according to the report, which also highlights two other cases in which the company seemingly protected employees accused of sexual harassment.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/25/google-says-its-dead-serious-about-workplace-misconduct-amid-reports-it-protected-accused-sexual-harassers/