Google staff walked out of their officers in London, Singapore, Dublin, Berlin and Zurich as a protest over the tech giant’s way of handling sexual harassment cases. This came after a series of publications from The New York Times surrounding Google’s high-profile workers.

The newspaper had published  an investigative report on sexual harassment at Google. According to the Times’ report, Android creator Andy Rubin was accused by a worker of having coerced her to perform oral sex on him in a hotel room back in 2013. Having found the allegation to be credible, the company then asked for his resignation, gave him an exit package of $90 million, and didn’t mention the misconduct in his departure announcement.

The protest nicknamed as “Walkout for Real Change” was organised a week earlier. Amounting to at least a 100 members of the company, King Cross station was among the places crowded. The articles in New York Times were said to have shocked the workforce as many of the cases were settled in private arbitration thus prompting protesters to call for CEO Sundar Pichai to end these way of dealing with sexual harassment cases.

Other concerns include of lack of equal pay and gender inequality.

In a press release, organisers of the global walkout said: “As Google workers, we were disgusted by the details of the recent New York Times article, which provided the latest example of a culture of complicity, dismissiveness, and support for perpetrators in the face of sexual harassment, misconduct, and abuse of power.