Microsoft Founder Bill Gates was dragged into 2019 allegations of sexual relationship with a female staffer by Microsoft directors. The directors opened probe into Gates relationship with staffer a few weeks after his divorce with wife Melinda.
Gates resigned from the board on March 13, 2020 before the investigation was complete. Board members had decided that the chairmanship of Gates was no longer tenable. Bill Gates had chaired Microsoft Board for decades after he found the Company in late 70s.
After resignation, Gates said that he wanted to concentrate on his philanthropy but would continue serving as a technical adviser to Chief Executive Satya Nadella. Gates vacated his board position at Berkshire Hathaway Inc, which is a conglomerate run by his friend Warren Buffet, the same day he resigned from his Microsoft seat.
Bill and Melinda met at workplace, and coincidentally work-related behavior shoved its way through them. Bill Gates was technically Melinda’s boss, when they started dating. Melinda was working as a product manager at Microsoft in 1987, after she had graduated from college.
Shortly after marriage in 1994, Gates started pursuing other women in the office. He would occasionally travel out with separate women while he was Microsoft’s chairman. His gawky approaches to women fueled pervasive gossip among workers who delved deeper into his personality.
Gates and his wife announced their divorce on Twitter in a joint statement. “We no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives,” the couple wrote.
Why Melinda divorced Bill Gates?
Melinda French Gates decided to divorce the once world’s richest man after a marriage of 27 years. Melinda was reportedly aware of her husband’s ‘wandering eye’. She had raised concerns over Gates’ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Bill Gates, who is renowned for his leading philanthropy, is a global image in the software industry. However, he had a questionable reputation in his workplace. His dubious past has attracted renewed scrutiny amid the breakup that was widely hyped.
It has been reportedly claimed that Gates pursued women who worked for him at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft.
Melinda was irked by the manner in which Bill handled a case involving his money manager Michael Larson in 2018. Larson had been implicated over alleged sexual harassment. Gates used to decide matters off the board, something that created a wedge between him and other members.
Their divorce was a culmination of the fallout that was largely punctuated with over-engagement on work related behaviors to the disadvantage of the family. The behavior was inappropriate for a person of his caliber.`
Microsoft’s Human resource Strategy
In April 2019, Microsoft, which is one of the world’s most admired companies, introduced new measures of handling employee complaints of discrimination and harassment. The company pledged to add extra training and increase the number of human resources staff to address worker grievances.
The changes were announced by Mr Nadella after women working at Microsoft shared varied versions of sexual confrontation and discrimination.
Board members were notified of the latter from a female engineer who demanded changes to her Microsoft work after sharing details of her relationship with Gates.
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