Google Walkout: Global Events After Allegations of Sexual Misconduct | Technology

Thousands of Google employees around the world have staged a series of strikes to protest charges of badual harbadment, gender inequality and systemic racism.

Demonstrations in the company's offices around the world began at at 11:10 am in Tokyo. and occurred at the same time in other time zones

. They follow allegations of badual misconduct against senior executives who, according to the organizers, are the most notable examples of "thousands" of similar cases in the business. [19659002] An image of central Singapore showed at least 100 protesting members.

Larger numbers appeared on the streets outside Google's Swiss office in Zurich and protests took place in Israeli cities of Haifa and Berlin.

Google staff also left the offices in London and Dublin.

In London, the majority of employees left their office and occupied the main auditorium of the company's office in King's Cross. Once the room filled, some people gathered outside, as well as a separate contingent of employees from DeepMind, the company's subsidiary, which was causing confusion, which sowed confusion among those who did not recognize their brothers and sisters.

"I protest here against harbadment in the workplace, to make sure we do not protect or support these harbaders," a protester told Sky News . "People support people who have been harbaded in any situation at the workplace, by any employer, and this is only part of the movement."

The Employees were asked to leave a pamphlet in their office that said, "I am not at my office because I am going out in solidarity with other entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs to protest badual harbadment, misconduct, lack of transparency and a culture of work that does not work for everyone [against]. "

Walkout for Real Change comes a week after Google awarded Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android mobile phone software, $ 90 million in severance pay, but concealed the details of an allegation made by Sexual misconduct that had triggered his departure. Rubin denied the allegations.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized that the company had taken a hard line on badual misconduct and would support employees who took part in the protests.

"Employees have come up with constructive ideas about how we can improve our policies and processes. We take into account all their reactions in order to realize these ideas, "he said.

Activists released a list of five demands, including an end to unequal pay and opportunity as well as greater transparency of badual harbadment. 19659039] Google Walkout, a real change
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We, Google employees and contractors, will leave the site on November 1 at 11:10 am to demand these five changes. #googlewalkout pic.twitter.com/amgTxK3IYw

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The New York Times, which broke Rubin's story, also reported allegations of misconduct badual against a number of other Google executives. Among them, Richard DeVaul, director of the laboratory affiliated to Google, had created a variety of projects such as autonomous cars and balloons on the Internet.

DeVaul stayed at Laboratory X after charges were made about him a few years ago. . He resigned Tuesday without severance pay.

Pichai apologized for the company's "past actions" in an e-mail sent to employees this week. "I understand the anger and disappointment that many of you are feeling," he said. "I feel it too, and I am fully committed to moving forward on a question that has been around for too long in our society. and, yes, here at Google. "

The email did not mention the reported incidents involving Rubin, DeVaul or anyone else, but Pichai did not dispute the veracity of the New York Times story.

Thursday's protest will be a test of how effectively Pichai has managed to appease staff anger at the problem. Google and its parent company, Alphabet, employ 94,000 people worldwide.

Mike Clancy, Secretary General of Prospect, the British Union of Technology Workers, supported the event. He said: "The events at Google highlight the frustration felt by many workers about the lack of voice in the number of technology companies. We need a zero tolerance for harbadment and a greater transparency of the conditions of staff use. "

Jackie Speier, a Congresswoman from Silicon Valley, tweeted her support for the walkout using the hashtag #MeToo, which has become a battle cry for women badual misconduct.

Speier represents a thriving neighborhood where many Google employees live, the Associated Press reported.