A new byproduct of the #MeToo movement has afforded employees significant leverage: employee walkouts. Google just experienced this, and responded with some substantial changes in its practices.

In October, the New York Times published an article detailing how, over the past decade, three Google executives were paid millions of dollars to quietly exit the company following sexual harassment accusations. Daisuke Wakabayashi and Katie Benner, “How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html. According to the article, one senior vice president was awarded a stock grant valued at $150 million in the middle of an investigation into his alleged sexual assault of a subordinate. The article further noted that this executive received $90 million in cash after the harassment allegation was deemed credible. This precipitated a headline-grabbing employee walkout.