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The chief executive officer of ride-sharing business Uber will step down indefinitely as a damning report exposes the company’s toxic culture.
Travis Kalanick sent a company-wide email on Tuesday announcing he would take an “unspecified” leave of absence from the company, conceding he needed to improve his leadership skills.
“Recent events have brought home for me that people are more important than work, and that I need to take some time off of the day-to-day to grieve my mother, whom I buried on Friday, to reflect, to work on myself, and to focus on building out a world-class leadership team,” Mr Kalanick said in the memo.
His mother died in a boating accident last month.
The San Francisco company has been in meltdown this year, crippled by complaints that it condones sexual harassment, bullying and retaliation against those who make complaints.
It has lost nine executives, and its global program to outwit local authorities trying to shut it down has been exposed.
The 13-page report criticises how the company’s “hustlin” culture had encouraged “poor behaviour”, how illicit drugs and alcohol were being used at work events and how the company needed clear policies to combat discrimination and harassment.
The company review was sparked by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, who published a blog post in February that detailed allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation within the company.