As the row over workplace sexism at Uber intensifies, a report has emerged of a group of senior employees, including chief executive Travis Kalanick, visiting an escort/karaoke bar in Seoul in 2014. The visit to the bar, where patrons select women to sing karaoke with, before typically taking them home, resulted in an HR complaint from one of the Uber employees, a female marketing manager. News of the trip was made public when Gabi Holzwarth, who was dating Kalanick at the time and attended the bar, gave an interview to tech news site The Information. Holzwarth and Kalanick left 45 minutes after that. The manager said that she had spoken with Uber’s HR leader and Kalanick about the issue.

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2017 09:22 UTC