Microsoft employees took their complaints on discrimination against the women in their workforce to an employee meeting on Thursday with CEO Satya Nadella.
The meeting follows reports of an internal company email chain that circulated in mid-March that aired some simmering grievances. In the communications, female Microsoft employees talked about a glass ceiling, discrimination, and harassment at the company. The complaints, the email chain said, were largely overlooked by Microsoft human resources personnel, according to the original report by Quartz.
At Thursday’s meeting, between 100 to 150 employees asked Nadella about the issues raised in the email discussion, while others watched the meeting in a livestream. Some employees wore white in emulation of the suffragette movement, most recently seen at the State of the Union address in February.
Reports indicate Nadella expressed empathy at the concerns and disappointment that they occurred. Microsoft chief people officer Kathleen Hogan and Nadella promised that...
The meeting follows reports of an internal company email chain that circulated in mid-March that aired some simmering grievances. In the communications, female Microsoft employees talked about a glass ceiling, discrimination, and harassment at the company. The complaints, the email chain said, were largely overlooked by Microsoft human resources personnel, according to the original report by Quartz.
At Thursday’s meeting, between 100 to 150 employees asked Nadella about the issues raised in the email discussion, while others watched the meeting in a livestream. Some employees wore white in emulation of the suffragette movement, most recently seen at the State of the Union address in February.
Reports indicate Nadella expressed empathy at the concerns and disappointment that they occurred. Microsoft chief people officer Kathleen Hogan and Nadella promised that...
- 4/5/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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