Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday said that employees who plan to walk out of the company in protest — following accusations leadership covered up claims of sexual harassment — have the tech giant's support. GOOGLE CEO REVEALS 48 EMPLOYEES WERE FIRED FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCTThe 46-year-old CEO said that engineers "have raised constructive ideas for how we can improve our policies and our processes going forward," and that Google is turning their "ideas into action." It was reported earlier this week that more than 200 employees planned to walk out on Thursday in protest. GOOGLE CEO 'DEEPLY SORRY' ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT INCIDENTS AS ALPHABET EXEC QUITSPichai sent a company-wide email following the report, saying Google has made several changes in recent years that included firing dozens of people for sexual harassment, "including 13 who were senior managers and above." He added that Google updated its policy to ensure vice presidents and senior vice presidents "disclose any relationship with a co-worker regardless of reporting line or presence of conflict."

Source: Fox News October 31, 2018 23:03 UTC