Other demands were also related to the work culture within the company, since they asked that all leaders be responsible for SpaceX being an “excellent place to work for everyone”, in addition to responding uniformly “to all forms of unacceptable behavior.”
In mid-May, a report highlighted that SpaceX allegedly paid a flight attendant $250,000 to keep quiet or sue the company following alleged sexual misconduct by Elon Musk, who proposed to have sex with her in 2016. .
The letter was shared through an internal Microsoft Teams channel with more than 2,600 employees on the grounds that the company was not abiding by its zero-tolerance policy against behavior such as sexual harassment. The letter generated more than 100 comments, but the number of signatures it received was not disclosed.
Despite this, the document stated that employees from “all spectrums of gender, ethnicity, seniority, and technical roles” had collaborated on the writing, while Shotwell asked employees to report complaints about their leaders. , to human resources or legal departments.