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According to Buzzfeed News, more than 200 Google employees are planning a walkout later this week as a result of a report describing a culture of sexual misconduct on the part of senior company executives.
The protest, scheduled for Thursday, is a response to a New York Times report describing how Google handled allegations of sexual misconduct against its employees. The report described incidents involving several leaders and former leaders, including Android creator Andy Rubin, who had left Google with a $ 90 million exit package, even after an investigation had revealed that the allegations against him were "credible".
Google reacted to the Times' story by publishing a company-wide e-mail, where CEO Sundar Pichai wrote that 48 people had been fired for sexual harassment in the past two years. But internally, according to Buzzfeed, Google executives held a four-handed meeting in which they apologized to employees and tried to explain how they had treated Rubin.
Over the weekend, Google employees then went to an internal forum to express their frustration, reports Buzzfeed, where the idea of organizing a walkout has grown in popularity. Google employees on the forum criticized what they called a group of powerful men who were avoiding themselves with dreadful behavior towards women in the company.
Rubin disputed the Times' report last week and accused the publication of a "smear campaign" containing "numerous inaccuracies".
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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