- Uber's HR chief Liane Hornsey says that she never met with Susan Fowler and doesn't really feel the need to
- Susan Fowler had some interesting things to say about that.
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Uber's head of HR says she never met with Susan Fowler, the woman whose blog post exposed the company
Susan Fowler had some interesting things to say about that.
joined Uber as the new HR boss in January. This was a month after Uber Fowler left the company to work at Stripe and a month before Fowler would write the now-famous blog post detailing the sexual harassment and sexism she alleged she experienced while working at Uber. Fowler's post also described how Uber's HR team allegedly brushed off her formal complaints about the incidents.
Fowler's blog post became a catalyst that sent Uber into a tailspin, complete with an internal investigation led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Uber eventually fired over 20 people and Holder submitted a long list recommendations from mandatory leadership-training sessions to the establishment of an in-house diversity advisory board.
Although Hornsey has no plans to meet Fowler, she described Fowler's impact to the WSJ:
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Tracy Chou, another female engineer who has worked to help bring more women to tech, also wasn't pleased.
In any case, Uber has been turned upside down since Fowler left in 2016. It ousted its founder CEO Travis Kalanick and hired a new CEO who is tasked with hiring a huge slate of new executives between those who left and those who were fired. The boardroom battles have continued to rage, but one thing's for certain: it has not been business as usual at Uber in 2017.
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