Workers said they felt that Bo Young Lee, the company’s head of diversity, equity, and inclusion, was lecturing them on the plight of white women.
The company’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, and its chief people officer, Nikki Krishnamurthy, purportedly told several employees that Lee had been placed on leave in an email last week, the Times stated. Employees had expressed outrage over Lee’s “Don’t Call Me Karen” events, which the company described as conversations “diving into the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience.
“We have heard that many of you are in pain and upset by yesterday’s Moving Forward session,” Khosrowshahi and Krishnamurthy said in their employee to Uber employees, according to the Times. “While it was meant to be a dialogue, it’s obvious that those who attended did not feel heard.”Gizmodo reached out to Uber for comment on the Times report on Monday morning but did not immediately receive a response.
Lee moderated two “Don’t Call Me Karen” events at Uber in April and May. After the first event, a Black woman employee at Uber asked how the company would prevent “tone-deaf, offensive, and triggering conversations” from being part of its diversity efforts, the Times found. Lee is said to have responded that the “Moving Forward” series meant to promote tough conversations and was not meant to be comfortable.
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