Google employees ask for explanations on cases of sexual harassment

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The search engine employees paraded symbolically while the company is accused of having protected some of its executives involved in badual harbadment cases.

Thousands of employees on the street

Transparency. That's what thousands of employees Google this Thursday, November 1 scrolling symbolically in front of the headquarters of the search engine. The 90,000 members of the group were contacted by email to leave their position at 11am (according to their respective time zone). The event took place in Japan, India, New York or Mountain View, the brand's historic headquarters.

This unprecedented social movement for Google stems from the recent publication of a New York Times article accusing Google of protecting some of these executives suspected of badual harbadment. The most emblematic case is that ofAndy Rubin, the founder of Android, who would have left the company following a complaint filed by an employee of the search engine with $ 90 million in compensation.

The movement also denounced wage inequalities between women and men, and demanded the publication by Google of accurate data on the repair of the workforce according to their ethnic origin and gender indicates Engadget. They also demand that Google publish a transparency report on the badual harbadment indicating the number of incidents in recent years, the names of employees dismissed for this type of activity and the amount of their severance pay.

The beginning of an awareness for the big groups of high tech?

The protesters are also asking for a representative of the employees on the board of directors so that the Vice President of Diversity at Google is directly attached to Sundar Pichai, CEO of the group, to bring up more quickly the various social problems of the company.

For now, Google has not responded to these requests. Sundar Pichai had " fully committed to making progress "When the article of the New York Times. Words that will not be enough to face the protests of its employees, who do not intend to be quiet before a complete reform of the operation of their company.