--- title: Uber Sexual Harassment Allegations Medium Post description: Find out how Uber responded to a new anonymous allegation of sexual harassment at the company after Susan Fowler's viral post. canonical: https://time.com/4686427/uber-sexual-harassment-allegations-response/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-01T20:05:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:59.455Z og:title: Uber Responds to a New Anonymous Allegation of Sexual Harassment og:description: 'We take any and all allegations of this nature very seriously' og:url: https://time.com/4686427/uber-sexual-harassment-allegations-response/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2784db2f166a8c7/6988bb547cdbac231dd5735c/uber-women-sexism-gender.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Uber Reportedly Loses Over $1 Billion In First Half Of 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Uber Responds to a New Anonymous Allegation of Sexual Harassment twitter:description: 'We take any and all allegations of this nature very seriously' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2784db2f166a8c7/6988bb547cdbac231dd5735c/uber-women-sexism-gender.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Uber Responds to a New Anonymous Allegation of Sexual Harassment by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 1, 2017 8:05 PM UTC  SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 26: The logo of the ride sharing service Uber is seen in front of its headquarters on August 26, 2016 in San Francisco, California. Uber's head of finance Gautam Gupta is reported to have told investors in a conference call that the company had lost $1.27 billion in the first half of 2016\. The ride sharing company lost an estimated $520 million in the first quarter and $720 million in the second quarter. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 26: The logo of the ride sharing service Uber is seen in front of its headquarters on August 26, 2016 in San Francisco, California. Uber's head of finance Gautam Gupta is reported to have told investors in a conference call that the company had lost $1.27 billion in the first half of 2016\. The ride sharing company lost an estimated $520 million in the first quarter and $720 million in the second quarter. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Justin Sullivan—;Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 1, 2017 8:05 PM UTC A week after Uber [announced it would launch an investigation](http://fortune.com/2017/02/19/uber-susan-fowler-sexual-harassment/) into claims of sexual harassment by an ex-employee in a [viral blog post,](https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber) the Silicon Valley giant has responded to a second person, who wrote anonymously about what the person said was a pattern of sexual harassment at the company. The anonymous individual, who claims to also be a former employee of the car-sharing startup, wrote a Medium post [under a pseudonym](https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-uber-survivor-c6d6541e632f#.c0m300vl3). The author says she is a woman who worked at the company’s San Francisco office and described the atmosphere there as hostile to women, minorities and LGBTQ individuals. However, the author’s most specific accusations are against a pseudonymous male co-worker, whom the post claims continually harassed, belittled and made sexually charged comments. The author says that when she complained to Uber’s Human Resources department, nothing was done. The Human Resources department implied that her job could be in jeopardy if she continued to complain, the post’s author says. The writer said she eventually left the company. “We take any and all allegations of this nature very seriously and have forwarded this to Attorney General Eric Holder and Tammy Albarran to include in their investigation,” Uber said in a statement to _Motto_ about the Medium post. In the recent blog post that led to the creation of the investigation, a former engineer at Uber named [Susan Fowler](http://fortune.com/2017/02/19/uber-susan-fowler-sexual-harassment/) claimed that she was sexually harassed by her team’s supervisor, and alleged that even though she told HR, the company declined to do anything about the behavior because they didn’t want to damage her manager’s career. After Fowler went public, Uber announced [it would launch an “urgent” investigation](http://fortune.com/2017/02/19/uber-susan-fowler-sexual-harassment/) into the allegations. The company [hired Holder](http://time.com/4676521/uber-sexual-harassment-eric-holder/?iid=sr-link1), who served as Attorney General under President Barack Obama, to oversee the investigation. Earlier this week, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick [asked ](http://motto.time.com/4685410/uber-sexual-harassment-exec-resigns/)[Amit Singhal](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/technology/uber-sexual-harassment-amit-singhal-resign.html), an executive the company hired in January, to resign. According to the [New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/technology/uber-sexual-harassment-amit-singhal-resign.html), Singhal had not disclosed to Uber that he had been accused of sexual harassment while he worked at Google, his previous employer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4686427/uber-sexual-harassment-allegations-response/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4686427/uber-sexual-harassment-allegations-response/"},"headline":"Uber Responds to a New Anonymous Allegation of Sexual Harassment","datePublished":"2017-03-01T20:05:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:59.455Z","description":"'We take any and all allegations of this nature very seriously'","url":"https://time.com/4686427/uber-sexual-harassment-allegations-response/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2784db2f166a8c7/6988bb547cdbac231dd5735c/uber-women-sexism-gender.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2784db2f166a8c7/6988bb547cdbac231dd5735c/uber-women-sexism-gender.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Uber Reportedly Loses Over $1 Billion In First Half Of 2016","caption":"Uber Reportedly Loses Over $1 Billion In First Half Of 2016","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—;Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4686427/uber-sexual-harassment-allegations-response/","name":"Uber Responds to a New Anonymous Allegation of Sexual Harassment"}}]}] ```