[jellicle]

Good companies have policies that any good-faith reports of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, fraud or abuse at the company, or any other similar event _shall not_ be subject to any bad consequences or disciplinary action, even if the complaint/report is not found to be substantiated or serious enough for the organization to take action on. No retaliation for people raising issues.

Google either doesn't have such a policy or it isn't followed, as shown by the linked article.

[username90]

Google already has no retaliation rules, but such rules can't rule out negative consequences which would befall them regardless. Otherwise you would encourage low performing individuals to accuse their manager of something before the manager pip's them.

[oliverx0]

You have a good point. I agree that there should not be retaliation for raising issues. But I think it is also important to realise that when an investigation has taken place, and the conclusion is that nothing can be done about it given lack of evidence, going against the company is not the right approach either. In the quotes that I provided, the only case of retaliation was really a warning to stop after a lot of people looked into the accusation.