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Alex Kipman, a longtime Microsoft executive, is leaving the company after 21 years due to numerous misconduct allegations, Insider reports. The accusations include inappropriately touching female employees and watching what one witness described as “VR porn” at work.
Kipman later took on a similar role in the creation of the HoloLens, mixed-reality smart glasses that, much like Kinect, have largely failed to catch on.
Behind the scenes of all this technological wizardry, Kipman was said to have fostered an difficult environment for the people working alongside him. One former Microsoft executive told Insider that he witnessed Kipman rubbing a woman’s shoulders. When she tried to stop him, Kipman continued anyway, despite her looking, as the executive put it, “deeply uncomfortable.”
Working with Kipman reportedly got so bad that over 25 employees contributed to a document compiling similarly negative interactions with the intention of sending it to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. According to three sources, managers even warned others not to leave women alone with Kipman.
Alex Kipman, a longtime Microsoft executive, is leaving the company after 21 years due to numerous misconduct allegations, Insider reports. The accusations include inappropriately touching female employees and watching what one witness described as “VR porn” at work.
Kipman later took on a similar role in the creation of the HoloLens, mixed-reality smart glasses that, much like Kinect, have largely failed to catch on.
Behind the scenes of all this technological wizardry, Kipman was said to have fostered an difficult environment for the people working alongside him. One former Microsoft executive told Insider that he witnessed Kipman rubbing a woman’s shoulders. When she tried to stop him, Kipman continued anyway, despite her looking, as the executive put it, “deeply uncomfortable.”
Working with Kipman reportedly got so bad that over 25 employees contributed to a document compiling similarly negative interactions with the intention of sending it to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. According to three sources, managers even warned others not to leave women alone with Kipman.
