When Uber’s founder Travis Kalanick welcomed Arianna Huffington to the ride-hailing company’s board last year, he lauded her “emotional intelligence” and drew attention to her bestseller about sleep. Ms Huffington can expect to have to use a lot of the former and get much less of the latter in the coming weeks.
She is the Uber director tapped by Mr Kalanick to conduct “a full independent investigation” into allegations of sexual harassment levelled at the company by a former engineer.
“What’s described here is abhorrent & against everything we believe in”, tweeted Mr Kalanick on Sunday about Susan Fowler’s long account of how Uber’s human resources team ignored her complaints about sexual advances from her manager.