Interviewing a sampling of employees who had filed reports to understand their experience with internal processes.
This 2022 disclosure remains a landmark moment for tech industry transparency, as it was one of the first times a major corporation publicly shared the internal audit of its misconduct handling in such detail. Final-Microsoft-Transparency-Report.pdf transfixed office ms conduct 16112022 exclusive
Requiring employees to disclose specific consensual relationships to avoid potential conflicts of interest or power imbalances. Interviewing a sampling of employees who had filed
Examining 489 investigative reports of U.S. gender discrimination and sexual harassment complaints from 2019 to 2021. transfixed office ms conduct 16112022 exclusive
In conjunction with the report’s release on November 15, 2022, Microsoft management published a detailed action plan to address all findings by the end of the 2023 fiscal year. Key steps in the plan included: