Google CEO highlights corporate changes following walkouts
This time last week, Google employees held massive walkouts across the country to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment in the wake of a damning New York Times piece . This morning, CEO Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees about the events that was also shared via the company’s blog . “We recognize that we have not always gotten everything right in the past and we are sincerely sorry for that,” the executive says in the letter. “It’s clear we need to make some changes.” The memo follows another recent letter, in which Pichai noted the termination of 48 employees for sexual harassment over the past two years. This latest letter also makes note of a private “action plan.” While not spelled out in its entirety, Pichai breaks down a handful of policy changes, including mandatory training for employees and the ways in which the company will handle sexual harassment claims going forward. Here are the bullet points, We will make arbitration optional for individual sexual ...