As a former Uber engineer’s blog about the company’s workplace culture went viral, CEO Travis Kalanick says he’s ordered an “urgent investigation. “
Uber will launch an internal investigation on sexual harassment after a former engineer wrote about her year working at the company.
In a Sunday blog post , former Uber engineer Susan Fowler alleged many women in the company were sexually harassed by other employees and complaints were dismissed by HR.
Her chief claim was that one manager had inappropriately sexually propositioned many women, but Uber management repeatedly “refused” to punish him as he was a “high performer. ”
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick tweeted a response, saying an investigation would be launched:
Arianna Huffington, one of Uber’s board members, tweeted: “Just talked w/ Travis & as a representative of Uber’s Board I will work w/Liane to conduct a full independent investigation starting now. ”
Fowler stated she was a site reliability engineer at Uber from November 2015 to late last year. She said it didn’t take her long to encounter harassment at the company.
