Google employees around the world staged a walkout over the company’s recent sexual harassment scandal, in which The New York Times revealed that the Internet giant had a history of quieting harassment allegations via large executive severance packages and oblique adjudication processes. Google employees in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia left their offices at 11:10 a.m. their local time.

The company has been reeling from the investigation, which found that it had stayed quiet about sexual harassment allegations against three executives, including Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android. Rubin—the focus of accusations of sexual misconduct—left Google in 2014 with a reported $90 million severance. (A female employee with whom Rubin was having an affair claimed he coerced her into performing oral sex on him in a hotel room in 2013, allegations that Google found credible enough to encourage Rubin’s early exit.) At the time, Alphabet CEO Larry Page did not disclose the reason for Rubin’s departure. The report also said that a Google X director had sexually harassed a prospective job applicant; the accused, Richard DeVaul, resigned earlier this week, without severance.

Rubin denied the allegation in a tweet when the Times went public, writing, “The New York Times story contains numerous inaccuracies about my employment at Google and wild exaggerations about my compensation. Specifically, I never coerced a woman to have sex in a hotel room. These false allegations are part of a smear campaign . . . to disparage me during a divorce and custody battle. Also, I am deeply troubled that anonymous Google executives are commenting about my personnel file and misrepresenting the facts.”

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a statement touting the success of a 2015 program initiated to help with reporting and acting on sexual harassment allegations at the company. He assured employees that management is “dead serious about making sure we provide a safe and inclusive workplace. We want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate, and we take action,” Pichai wrote. “We are committed to ensuring that Google is a workplace where you can feel safe to do your best work, and where there are serious consequences for anyone who behaves inappropriately.”

But the statement was clearly not enough for some thousands of Google employees around the world, many of whom feel that Google’s problem reflects larger patterns of gender and racial bias in the tech world. Organizers of the walkout gave a list of demands to The Cut, including an end to forced arbitration and establishing “a clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct.”