FREEWHEELING UBER SHEDS OFFICIALS, FACES MORE MAJOR CHANGES
Freewheeling Uber faces major change. Its board is cracking down, its founder and CEO is stepping away indefinitely, and the company itself is coming to grips with measures intended to reform its toxic culture and aggressive business practices.
And it all started when Susan Fowler, a former Uber engineer, posted a personal essay in February that detailed the company’s toleration of sexual harassment and discrimination. Had she not come forward in such a public manner, it’s possible none of this would have happened.
“What she did took real courage,” said Elizabeth Ames, a senior vice president at the Anita Borg Institute, a nonprofit founded to advance women in
