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

Google changed some policies on sexual misconduct after thousands of employees walked out of their offices last week to protest big payouts for executives accused of harassment and other misbehavior.

The Alphabet Inc. unit is making arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment and sexual assault claims. It also pledged to provide more information to staff about such investigations and the outcomes, and expand mandatory training on the issue, addressing some of the issues workers asked for in staging the walkout.

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