Chief Legal Officer at Google Parent Company Stepping Down Amid Investigation
David Drummond, the chief legal officer of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and one of its most senior executives, is leaving the internet giant amid an investigation into his relationships with women who worked at the company, reports The New York Times.
His resignation comes more than a year after 20,000 Google employees protested the company’s handling of sexual harassment and inappropriate workplace relationships, writes the Times‘ Daisuke Wakabayashi.
“Some employees inside Google were dismayed that Mr. Drummond was not forced to leave after the details of an extramarital relationship he had with a woman who worked for him became public,” Wakabayashi continues. “The concerns about Mr. Drummond’s workplace romances took on new life when he recently married another woman from Google’s legal department.”
