In a letter to employees, CEO Sundar Pichai said the tech giant was taking an "increasingly hard line" on inappropriate conduct.
The letter was in response to a New York Times report that Andy Rubin, creator of Android mobile software, received a $90m exit package despite facing misconduct allegations.
A spokesman for Mr Rubin, who left the company in 2014, denied misconduct, according to the newspaper.
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