500 workers ask Sundar Pichai to stop protecting harassers at Google

More than 500 employees have sent an open letter to Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding that the company stop protecting the harassers and provide workers an environment free from their abusers.

The letter came after former Google engineer Emi Nietfeld wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times, alleging that she was forced to have one-on-one meetings with the man who harassed her.

“My harasser still sat next to me. My manager told me H.R. wouldn’t even make him change his desk, let alone work from home or go on leave,” she wrote.

The letter that was published on Medium late on Friday, read that “This is a long pattern where Alphabet protects the harasser instead of protecting the person harmed by the harassment.