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What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company to hire an outside investigator. (www.theverge.com)

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Linus Media Group CEO Terren Tong also responded via email, saying he was “shocked at the allegations and the company described” in Reeve’s posts. He went on to note that “as part of this process, beyond an internal review we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publish the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this.”

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to say Colton can't do the job, but HR is a department that needs to be independent of all other departments and the voice of the HR manager needs to be considered more important than the voice of most of the other managers because they're the ones dealing with the humans that make the company.

[–] unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Oh exactly, he oversees many functions that are traditionally held by separate people. You can't juggle those functions in parallel without degradation in quality and proper oversight... Which seems to be the theme over the past couple of days..