After receiving blowback for refusing to release women from nondisclosure agreements preventing them from speaking about allegations of workplace harassment and misconduct, Mike Bloomberg reversed course on Friday.

In an afternoon tweet, Bloomberg said that his company identified three NDAs and that the women could contact the company if they would like to speak publicly about what happened.

Bloomberg took a 20-point hit to his net favorability in a poll released after Wednesday's debate debacle in Las Vegas.

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After extended blowback over his company's use of nondisclosure agreements preventing employees from speaking about allegations of workplace harassment, Mike Bloomberg reversed course in a tweet on Friday afternoon.

"Bloomberg LP has identified 3 NDAs signed over the past 30+ years with women to address complaints about comments they said I had made," the Democratic presidential candidate tweeted. "If any of them want to be released from their NDAs, they should contact the company and they'll be given a release."

Bloomberg's lack of an answer about whether he would release women from the NDAs to allow them to speak drew the ire of Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the debate stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Warren picked Bloomberg apart in an extended exchange, further humiliating the 78-year-old billionaire on a night that cost him 20 points in his net favorability in a Morning Consult poll of potential Democratic voters released on Friday.

A November investigation by Business Insider delivered the first reporting on nearly 40 employment lawsuits against Bloomberg LP from 64 people since 1996. A former Bloomberg LP employee recently asked a New York Supreme Court judge to invalidate her NDA and those of any "similarly situated" employees.

Until his tweet on Friday, Bloomberg had refused to say whether any of the women could be released from the agreements.

"I recognize that NDAs, particularly when they are used in the context of sexual harassment and sexual assault, promote a culture of silence in the workplace and contribute to a culture of women not feeling safe or supported," Bloomberg said in a statement on his campaign website on Friday. "It is imperative that when problems occur, workplaces not only address the specific incidents, but the culture and practices that led to those incidents.

"And then leaders must act."