A senior Google employee has told a London employment tribunal that she was pushed out of the company after reporting a manager who allegedly made sexually inappropriate comments to clients and colleagues, including sharing details about his swinger lifestyle and showing a nude image of his wife, as reported by the BBC.
Victoria Woodall, who worked as a senior industry head in Google’s UK Sales and Agencies team, stated that she faced a sustained campaign of retaliation after whistleblowing against her manager in 2022. Court documents seen by the BBC show that Google’s internal investigation later found the manager had sexually harassed colleagues and touched two female employees without consent. He was subsequently dismissed for gross misconduct.
Google has denied retaliating against Woodall, arguing instead that she became “paranoid" after raising the complaint and began interpreting routine business decisions as hostile. The company maintains that her redundancy was part of a wider restructuring.
According to her claim, the case began when a female client contacted her in August 2022 to complain about a Google manager’s behaviour during a business lunch. The client alleged that the manager boasted about his sexual experiences, spoke about being in an open marriage, and described sexual encounters involving himself and...
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