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Google workers fume over executives' payouts after sexual misconduct claims

Some workers said they wanted more data on how many claims were investigated

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Daisuke Wakabayashi & Kate Conger | NYT
At Google’s weekly staff meeting on Thursday, the top question that employees voted to ask Larry Page, a co-founder, and Sundar Pichai, the chief executive, was one about sexual harassment.

“Multiple company actions strongly indicate that protection of powerful abusers is literally and figuratively more valuable to the company than the well-being of their victims,” read the question, which was displayed at the meeting, according to people who attended. “What concrete and meaningful actions will be taken to turn this around?”

The query was part of an outpouring from Google employees after a New York Times article published on Thursday reported how

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