Google's Sundar Pichai says 48 employees were fired for sexual harassment

 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the presentation of new Google hardware in San Francisco, California, U.S. October 4, 2016. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

 

(Reuters) - 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.

 

The report said the search engine giant protected three senior executives from allegations of sexual misconduct by offering them payouts.

 

The email, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, said of the 48 that were fired, 13 were senior managers or held more senior posts.

 

However, Pichai said none of those employees received an exit package.

 

The email, which was also signed by Google's vice president of people operations Eileen Naughton, said that company employees could use internal tools to report cases of inappropriate behaviour anonymously.

 

It also said that Google has updated its policy to require all vice presidents and senior vice presidents 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," the email said.

 

(Reporting by Nivedita Bhattacharjee; editing by Clive McKeef)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-10-26

Want to get rid of your pesky male boss or co-worker?  Claim 'sexual harassment.'  No due-process needed.  No evidence needed.  "Bye-bye dude.  Sucks to be a guy in a culture of liberal progressivism."

wonder if any of them were guilty. there must be quite a few men out there getting PTSD from just working alongside females.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Google's Sundar Pichai says 48 employees were fired for sexual harassment

Good. 

 

Zero tolerance for workplace sexual harassment is the only way forward. 

6 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Good. 

 

Zero tolerance for workplace sexual harassment is the only way forward. 

Until you are falsely accused.

How many women got fired for pushing to sleep with their supervisors,  in order to get a promotion quickie ?

2 minutes ago, observer90210 said:

How many women got fired for pushing to sleep with their supervisors,  in order to get a promotion quickie ?

Haven't a clue? Do you?

11 minutes ago, lungbing said:

Until you are falsely accused.

You know I’ve never harassed anyone in the work place and never been accused of doing so. 

 

Funny that, eh...

49 minutes ago, observer90210 said:

How many women got fired for pushing to sleep with their supervisors,  in order to get a promotion quickie ?

Try calling a female co-worker Sweetie or Honey. But my female boss, in a place where we had seminars in office behavior, always addressed males in the office with such endearments.