Microsoft Vows to Focus on Gender Harassment Amid Uproar

Microsoft Corp.’s top executives pledged to discuss diversity and harassment issues at monthly employee meetings after complaints about sexual misconduct and discrimination against women erupted in a 90-page email thread at the software maker.

Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, human resources chief Kathleen Hogan and senior engineering leader Rajesh Jha were among those who answered questions about the issues raised in the emails at a previously scheduled monthly “all-hands” meeting on Thursday. At that meeting, which can be watched by all workers and is attended by a smaller group of employees, the officials committed to focusing on the issue at these meetings from now on, said a person familiar with the discussion.