A dozen current and former Google employees say that they are afraid to report workplace problems, including harassment and discrimination, for fear of reprisal, per a new report
Previously unreleased internal documents show that dozens of employees allege “that when they filed complaints with Google’s human resources department, they were retaliated against by being demoted, pushed out, or placed on less desirable projects,”Recode. The majority of these claims relate to harassment and discrimination, and some of the details are remarkable. In one case, an employee says a manager called a complaint of sexual harassment an overreaction.
“When they told their manager that a senior colleague was sexually harassing them, the manager allegedly said that they were ‘overreacting’”Earlier this year, as Recode reports, “two Google walkout organizers said they were punished for their activism and left the company” and “a former legal department employee reported being pushed out of her role at the company after having a child with Alphabet’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, who has been accused of having extramarital affairs with...
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