After years as a free-wheeling,fast-growing startup, Google is trying to adjust to theresponsibilities and realities of being one of the world's mostpowerful companies. (Photo: Michael Short/Bloomberg)

Google changed some policies on sexual misconduct afterthousands of employees walked out of their offices last week toprotest big payouts for executives accused of harassment and othermisbehavior.

The Alphabet Inc. unit is making arbitration optional for individual sexualharassment and sexual assault claims. It also pledged to providemore information to staff about such investigations and theoutcomes, and expand mandatory training on the issue, addressingsome of the issues workers asked for in staging the walkout.

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