Google employees walk out over sexual harassment, inequality and racism claims

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Google employees around the world are to walk out of their offices on Thursday in protest at claims of sexual harassment&comma; gender inequality and systemic racism at the tech giant&comma; which &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;go all the way to the top”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The protest comes following allegations of sexual misconduct made against senior executives published in the New York Times&comma; which organisers say are the most high-profile examples of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;thousands” of similar cases across the company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As Google workers&comma; we were disgusted by the details of the recent New York Times article&comma; which provided the latest example of a culture of complicity&comma; dismissiveness&comma; and support for perpetrators in the face of sexual harassment&comma; misconduct&comma; and abuse of power&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sadly&comma; this is part of a longstanding pattern&comma; one further amplified by systemic racism&comma;” organisers said in a press release&period; Staff around the world are expected to leave their offices at 11&period;10 am local time&comma; demanding an end to pay inequality&comma; more accountability in cases of harassment and better representation for workers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hundreds of employees in Dublin&comma; Zurich&comma; Singapore and Tokyo have already been pictured leaving their offices en masse&comma; listening to speeches and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sharing stories about harassment&comma; microaggressions&comma; inefficient process&comma; broken culture”&comma; according to one employee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;BFD0527A-E471-47F0-AAC2-0B8E3EE07B79&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;BFD0527A-E471-47F0-AAC2-0B8E3EE07B79&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1100" height&equals;"1177" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119944" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Richard DeVaul&comma; a director at a unit of Google’s parent company&comma; Alphabet&comma; resigned from the company on Tuesday after he was accused of sexually harassing a female job applicant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Android creator Andy Rubin left Google in 2014 with a 90 million dollar &lpar;£70 million&rpar; golden parachute&comma; one of three executives the company is accused of protecting and supporting after being accused of sexual misconduct&comma; according to the New York Times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For every story in the New York Times&comma; there are thousands more&comma; at every level of the company&period; Most have not been told&comma;” added organisers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e37c788134b">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; 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