Alphabet exec out as company grapples with harassment reports
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A top executive at Alphabet Inc.’s experimental moonshot unit has left the company after the New York Times reported he was accused of sexual harassment.
Rich DeVaul, a director at X, the lab that came up with futuristic projects like internet-projecting balloons and delivery drones, left the company Tuesday without severance pay, a source familiar with the matter said. Axios previously reported DeVaul’s departure.
The New York Times reported DeVaul invited a job candidate to the Burning Man festival and asked her to remove her shirt so he could give her a back rub in 2013. The woman reported the incident two years later, but DeVaul remained in his post despite a Google human resources employee telling the woman that the company had taken “appropriate action,” the newspaper said.
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