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Uber received 400,000 reports of sexual misconduct from 2017 to 2022


Between 2017 and 2022, 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the US, or around one every eight minutes.

The report is based on interviews with current a former employees, internal documents and court records under seal as part of "large-scale sexual assault litigation against Uber." It also shows that Uber rejected safety measures like cameras in cars so as not to disrupt its business model dictating that drivers are contractors and not employees. However, with details of horrific assaults and Uber wilfully failing to deal with the problem, the r eport is yet another damning indictment of the company's growth-above-all culture.

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