Google Employees Walk Out To Protest Company’s Treatment Of Women

A Google employee walks past a logo outside the entrance to the company’s offices in Berlin, Germany in 2013

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Updated at 2:40 p.m. ET

Google employees worldwide are walking off the job to protest the company’s treatment of women and its handling of sexual assault cases.

They walked out of Google offices at 11:10 a.m. local time Thursday in Singapore, Zurich, London, Dublin and New York City, filling nearby streets, sidewalks and parks.