Uber's culture could be forever changed.
On Tuesday, Uber released to employees the results of an intensive investigation into its corporate culture.
Put together by former US Attorney General Eric Holder and his law firm, the 13-page report includes both major recommendations, such as curtailing the role of CEO Travis Kalanick, and more minor ones, like re-naming a company conference area from the War Room to the "peace room." Uber's board agreed unanimously to adopt all 47 of the report's recommendations.
Among other things, the company agreed to:
- Re-write its cultural values to remove things like "always be hustlin'" and "Principled Confrontation" that the reports says were used as excuses for bad behavior.
- Focus on finding a chief operating officer who can be a partner to Kalanick and take over the company's day-to-day operations and overseeing its culture.
- Work to change its party culture, including limiting alcohol at work events and in the office. Uber will also put in place a formal ban on employee-manager relationships.
- Make diversity a priority at the company by doing things like blind resume reviews and adopting a version of the Rooney Rule, whereby it would interview at least one woman and one minority candidate for each open position.
- Increase the independence of the board and use compensation to hold the company's senior leaders accountable for following through on the report's recommendations on diversity and business ethics.
Additionally, in the wake of the report, Kalanick announced he's taking a leave of absence from Uber.
The Holder report is the culmination of a several-month investigation into Uber's workplace. The company hired Holder and his law firm in February to examine its workplace culture after a former engineer at the company wrote a blog post about her experience at Uber that included accusations of sexual harassment and pervasive gender discrimination.
An additional investigation led by a different law firm resulted in the firing of more than 20 Uber employees after the firm received 215 claims of sexual harassment and other bad behaviors at the company. Holder's report took into the findings of that separate investigation.
Here's the full 13-page Holder report:
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