Google's Sundar Pichai claims to have fired 48 people for sexual harassment in the last two years

Google said Thursday it fired 48 employees in the past two years, including 13 senior executives, following allegations of badual harbadment, citing "an increasingly harsh line "about inappropriate behavior.

The US tech giant released the CEO's statement, Sundar Pichai, in response to a report by the New York Times that one of Google's top employees, Android creator Andy Rubin, had received a $ 90 million exit package while he was accused of misconduct. other allegations of badual harbadment.

At the request of AFP and other media, Google sent an email to employees of Pichai in which it stated that 48 people had been fired for badual harbadment in the last two years, including 13 executives higher.

"In recent years, we have made a number of changes, including the adoption of an increasingly strict line of conduct regarding the inappropriate behavior of people in

. He added that the report on Rubin and others "was difficult to read", but he did not directly address the claims of the article.

"We are really serious about wanting to ensure that we provide a safe and inclusive workplace", he said. he said, "We want to make sure that we review every complaint about badual harbadment or inappropriate conduct, that we investigate and that we act."

Sam Singer, Rubin spokesman, dismissed charges against he in a statement to AFP Rubin left himself Google to start a venture capital company and a technological incubator, Playground

.He then founded the company of Essential smartphones. The Android operating system, which Google provides for free to device manufacturers, powers about 85 percent of the world's smartphones.

The New York Times cited court documents and interviews, while indicating that Rubin was one of the top three Google executives. Protected in the last 10 years as a result of complaints of inappropriate badual behavior.

The Times quoted two anonymous Google officials as saying that then-President Larry Page would have asked for Rubin's resignation after the company had confirmed a woman's complaint about 39, a badual relationship. hotel in 2013.

A Google survey found that the woman's complaint was credible, the Times reported.

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