Alibaba chief executive Daniel Zhang announced in an internal message the firing of a manager who allegedly sexually assaulted an employee, and pledged to change the company’s culture, the Financial Times reported.
Zhang’s message added that two other executives who failed to act after the incident had resigned, and called the alleged sexual assault a “humiliation for all Aliren”, or “Ali people,” as employees of the company call themselves, the FT reported. “We must rebuild, and we must change,” Zhang said, according to the report. Full story: Financial Times.
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