https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18024486/google-sexual-harassment-people-fired-rubin-2-years-ceo

In an email to all Google employees following today’s New York Times exposé on Andy Rubin, CEO Sundar Pichai and Eileen Naughton — the company’s VP of people operations — said the story was “difficult to read.” “We are dead serious about making sure we provide a safe and inclusive workplace,” the pair wrote in a co-signed note. The email does not attempt to refute or discredit anything in The New York Times story, which said that in addition to Rubin, Google also protected two other men accused of sexual misconduct on their way out the door with generous exit packages.

“We want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate, and we take action.” According to Pichai, 48 employees have been fired over the last two years without any kind of exit package / severance payment; 13 of them were “senior managers or above.” He also lists off steps Google has taken — in the months and years after Rubin’s departure and $90 million windfall — that are meant to provide transparency and confidentiality.