Google staff in global walkout

San Francisco – Google employees poured out of buildings at the company’s Mountain View campus, filling courtyards and patios in solidarity with co-workers who staged similar demonstrations at offices in countries around the world to protest the company’s handling of sexual misconduct.

Demonstrators streamed across the Mountain View campus, some waving signs bearing messages such as “Time’s Up Tech” and “Happy to quit for $90 million – no sexual harassment required”.

The turnout in California was the final stage of a global walkout that began in Asia and spread to Google offices in Europe.

Some protestors chalked statements such as “Not OK Google” in large letters on pavement as television news helicopters circled overhead. –