Thousands of Google employees began to walk out at company locations worldwide on Thursday to protest sexual harassment, pay inequality and a workplace culture of that dismisses victims and tolerates abuse of power.
“We were disgusted by the details of the recent New York Times article, which provided the latest example of a culture of complicity, dismissiveness, and support for perpetrators in the face of sexual harassment, misconduct, and abuse of power,” organizers of the #GoogleWalkout said in a statement to Fox News. “Sadly, this is part of a longstanding problem, one further amplified by systemic racism. We know this culture well.”
In New York City, throngs of Google employees filled a nearby park to capacity, carrying signs that said “Times Up Tech” and “Workers Rights Are Women’s Rights.”
“What you read in the New York Times are a small sampling of the thousands of stories we all have, the thousands of stories we carry for each other, the thousands of instances of abuse of power, discrimination, harassment and a pattern of unethical and thoughtless decision-making that has marked this company for the last year and that has marked our culture and scarred so many of us,” said Meredith Whittaker, Google Open Reseach founder and an organizer of the demonstration, to the assembled crowd not far from Google’s New York City office in Chelsea.– READ MORE