Google workers worldwide protest handling of misconduct allegations and demand change
Hundreds of Google workers around the world are walking off the job to protest what they say is the internet company’s lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct. Thousands of Google employees from more than 40 offices joined together, calling for structural changes to address what organizers of the protest called a “culture of complicity, dismissiveness, and support for perpetrators in the face of sexual harassment, misconduct, and abuse of power.” The walkouts came less than a week after the New York Times reported that in 2014, Google protected the reputation of Andy Rubin, who created the Android mobile operating system, after an employee accused him of coercing her into performing a sex act. Early this week, Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai apologized for the Alphabet Inc. arm’s “past actions” and gave his blessing to the walkout plan. “We have tens of thousands of people who walked out from nearly three-quarters of all Google offices.… We have the power to push this issue.” In Venice, the crowd of workers left the office courtyard, filed out to the building’s back door, walked across a short crosswalk and entered another private, gated Google courtyard, flanked by company security guards. We are taking in all their feedback so we can turn these ideas into action.” In a Tuesday email to employees, Pichai apologized for what he called the company’s past actions and later said that executives had fired 48 employees accused of sexual harassment — including 13 senior managers — without any severance packages.
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