Google Employees Stage Global Walkout Over Treatment of Sexual Harassment

Organizers demand the tech giant remove mandatory-arbitration clauses from employee contracts

Thousands of Google employees around the world staged a series of walkouts Thursday to protest a workplace culture that they say promotes and protects perpetrators of sexual harassment at the tech giant.

The organizers of the walkout published a letter demanding the company change its policies to make it safer for women to report instances of sexual harassment and to bolster the transparency of those reports.

“There...