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Waiting for India Inc's Uber moment

  • Writer: Ishani Roy
    Ishani Roy
  • Mar 14, 2017
  • 1 min read

In a blog, Susan Fowler, a former engineer at Uber, described in surreal detail, a series of events over a period of one year that included verbal harassment from co-workers, sexual harassment from her manager and complicit behaviour from the company’s human resource leaders.


Fowler’s experience prompted Uber to appoint the former US attorney general to investigate the case. Within days, the head of engineering and star hire Amit Singhal resigned for not divulging harassment charges at his former employer, Google.

This is an excerpt from an opinion piece for The Business Standard. Read the full piece here.

 
 
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