Accordingly Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday sent an email to all employees of the company, stating that 48 people have been fired over the last two years for sexual misconduct. Meanwhile the email comes in response to a story in The New York Times, which reported that Google protected some of its executives, including Android creator Andy Rubin, from allegations of sexual harassment and even offered them huge payouts to exit the company.
Furthermore Sundar Pichai also clarified that these employees did not receive any exit package when they were terminated. The email read as “They are dead serious about making sure we provide a safe and inclusive workplace and they want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate and we take action”.
Moreover signed by Sundar Pichai and Eileen Naughton, Google’s vice president of people operations, the email states that the company has several mechanisms, including Respect@ and annual Internal Investigations Report, to provide transparency in the type of investigations at Google. Hence the Google CEO also added that as per their new policy, all vice-presidents and senior vice-presidents are required to disclose any relationship with a co-worker “regardless of reporting line or presence of conflict”.
