Apple as soon as needed each its customers and workers to “Think Different.” But some girls working on the tech big now say the corporate itself must suppose completely different on claims of sexual misconduct. Past and current workers advised the Financial Times that the tech big routinely ignores complaints of sexual harassment and misconduct within the office in any respect ranges.

In a narrative revealed Thursday—primarily based on interviews with 15 previous and current Apple workers from a number of completely different departments and states—girls say Apple’s HR division referred to as the People group, didn’t give a lot credit score to claims of sexual harassment or misconduct.

Former workers describe a company so wholly centered on creating the subsequent huge product to care about worker complaints. Women working at a number of completely different departments everywhere in the firm, and in numerous states, described going to HR with complaints that have been routinely ignored. One former employee within the authorized division described how their supervisor bullied and harassed them after taking depart to go to her dying father, and {that a} coworker was sexting her all hours of the day. After being laid off, she was requested to signal an settlement to not maintain Apple answerable for “alleged emotional distress” in change for just a few months of wage.

In an announcement to FT, Apple stated it investigates all misconduct allegations whereas making workers really feel comfy to report abuse. At the identical time, the corporate admitted “there are some accounts raised that do not reflect our intentions or our policies and we should have handled them differently.” Apple added it can make modifications to its “training and processes.”

Chris Deaver, a former HR rep at Apple, advised FT the corporate usually handled engineers making an attempt to ape the general public Steve Jobs archetype, AKA the supervisor who humiliates folks in conferences. He referred to as it an issue with Apple’s drive for “secrecy.” Other feminine workers described a poisonous work atmosphere filled with gaslighting, dismissal, and even outright antagonism towards claims of sexual harassment to the FT.

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Human resources departments get lumped into two ends, either The Office’s sad sack Toby caricature, or a bulwark protecting the company from the employees that work for it. The company, worth $2.6 trillion, remains one of Silicon Valley’s biggest employers. CEO Tim Cook has previously called for more female leadership at his and other U.S. tech companies.

This isn’t the first time the tech giant has been called out for discrimination in the workplace. The so-called #AppleToo initiative—a play on the #MeToo hashtag—called the company “an opaque, intimidating fortress” that regularly shut out women and people of color. Leaders of the movement further called out the company for squashing pay transparency surveys that showed pay discrepancies on racial and gender lines. One of the organizers of #AppleToo left the company last November following a complaint settlement she filed with the National Labor Relations board.

The world’s once-most valuable company’s own 2021 diversity report proclaims its increase in the number of female hires globally. They also mention that 47% of leadership roles and 34% of research and development jobs are being filled by women, a 11% and 5% increase from 2014, respectively.

Still the global makeup of Apple’s total workforce is just 35% women to 65% men. It’s worse in the company’s tech departments, where only a quarter of the workforce is female. Apple isn’t an outlier in that regard, though. A recent report from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission showed that women accounted for under 27% of the federal technology workforce. Low rates of women in tech is a consistent sticking level for your entire STEM subject.