A new report suggests that there are pervasive sexual harassment problems at Microsoft, both at both the gaming-focused Xbox brand and across the company. One female employee alleges she received death threats over implied sexual favours. Another says that a pervasive number of women at the company “had been called a bitch at work.” Other tech and gaming companies, notably Riot, have faced similar accusations of discrimination in the past. These allegations come via an internal Microsoft email chain obtained by Quartz - the outlet says it has verified the contents of the email with a pair of Microsoft employees. The emails began on March 20 as one employee asked other women in the company about advancement after six years in the same position. That chain has grown to over 90 pages worth of discussion from women at the company, including numerous reports of discrimination and sexual harassment. One female employee says that during a work trip, a male employee at a partner company threatened to kill her if she refused to perform implied sexual acts. “My male manager told me that ‘it sounded like he was just flirting’ and I should ‘get over it.’ HR basically said that since there was no evidence, and this man worked for a partner company and not Microsoft, there was nothing they could do.”
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