After on Monday, #AppleToo, a gaggle made up of present and former Apple staff seeking to shine a light-weight on the corporate’s office tradition, says it has collected almost 500 tales of incidents involving discrimination, harassment and retaliation “that happened at the hands of a colleague off of campus.” According to the , the vast majority of those that bought in contact requested for info on easy methods to file a criticism with an exterior authority just like the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH).

What’s extra, the group says greater than half of the people it spoke with requested for info and steerage on easy methods to contact the media about their tales. “Almost everyone consented to having their stories shared respectfully and anonymously,” it mentioned. Apple Workers plans to start out sharing these tales publicly subsequent week, nevertheless it provided a preview on Friday, noting the throughline in most of the incidents was that staff felt they have been ignored by Apple’s HR division.

Apple already faces questions over its dealing with of sexism within the office. In August, the corporate put Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program supervisor, on . In a , Gjøvik shared interactions she had with the corporate’s worker relations staff. In one episode, a supervisor referenced her “tone” in shows and mentioned, “I didn’t hear you going up an octave at the end of your statements.” Gjøvik mentioned she solely resorted to sharing her story publicly as a result of “the whole lot I attempted internally has failed.”