{"id":3632,"date":"2018-10-25T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/google-sacks-dozens-over-sexual-harassment\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:46:16","slug":"google-sacks-dozens-over-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/google-sacks-dozens-over-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Google sacks dozens over sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Google headquarters in Hamburg\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1278F\/production\/_104036657_049062173-1.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Google says it has sacked 48 people including 13 senior managers over sexual harassment claims in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to employees, CEO Sundar Pichai said the tech giant was taking a &#8220;hard line&#8221; on inappropriate conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was in response to a New York Times report that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/25\/technology\/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Android creator Andy Rubin received a $90m exit package despite facing misconduct allegations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Mr Rubin denied the allegations, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rubin left the company in 2014. He was given what the paper described as a &#8220;hero&#8217;s farewell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said Google was &#8220;dead serious&#8221; about providing a &#8220;safe and inclusive workplace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate and we take action,&#8221; it continued.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45986510\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Google says it has sacked 48 people including 13 senior managers over sexual harassment claims in the past two years. In a letter to employees, CEO Sundar Pichai said the tech giant was taking a &#8220;hard line&#8221; on inappropriate conduct. The letter was in response to a New York Times report that &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}