A former member of staff at Facebook has claimed that female employees were told not to wear revealing clothing at work as it would “distract” their male colleagues – Breitbart News Network reports.
Former employee Antonio García Martínez – who was fired from Facebook two years ago – makes the claim in a memoir about his time working their titled ‘Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley’.
“Our male HR authority, with occasional backup from his female counterpart, launched into a speech about avoiding clothing that ‘distracted’ co-workers. I’d later learn that managers did in fact occasionally pull aside female employees and read them the riot act,” he says.
He also says that Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg frequently sent angry emails to staff. After plans were leaked he sent emails asking them to resign.
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