Last year, the sales director accessed these cameras to take photos of female workers, then posted them in a Slack channel called RawVerkadawgz alongside sexually explicit jokes. Employees told IPVM that a group of men in leadership positions on the sales team, many of whom grew up in Danville and played football together in high school, contributed to a culture of sexism.
The post was shared alongside images of employees taken from Verkada security cameras. All of them chose to stay and take the stock option cut, according to Vice. On October 23rd, Kaliszan sent an email to employees addressing the incident. By the time we became aware of it, the Slack channel had been deleted; we attempted to recover it but were unable to. That said, all of the participants were promptly disciplined with penalties proportional to their role in the incident.
This isolated incident was investigated and all individuals involved were disciplined accordingly. This process included our HR department working with the women impacted by this incident—offering professional and personal resources to ensure they supported our course of action and felt safe and comfortable in their jobs.
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