KEY POINTS
  • Microsoft will hire more people to investigate claims of misconduct.
  • Diversity and inclusion will become a part of the performance review for more Microsoft executives.
  • The changes follow a recent internal email thread in which employees shared stories of mistreatment.
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., attends the Viva Tech start-up and technology gathering at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris on May 24, 2018.

Microsoft is shaking up its human resources policies to address employee complaints of discrimination and harassment, and criticisms of an insufficient company response to those complaints. The changes, which CEO Satya Nadella announced to employees in an email Monday, are coming less than two weeks after it became clear that workers were talking about how they had been mistreated in an email thread.

Microsoft isn't the first technology company looking to raise standards for employees following reports of sexual harassment. Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that company's plan in November after thousands of employees staged protests.