Safety and security of commuters is our highest priority: Uber

Global ride-hailing platform Uber on Tuesday said it has invested significantly on safety of its commuters as a part of its key business priorities in backdrop of harassment complaints it received last year.

"Safety and security of our commuters is something which is of highest priority at Uber. We have nearly 7 million people across globe using our services every day.

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We have invested a lot in safety as a key business priority," Uber chief diversity officer Bo Young Lee said at an event here. She said company has invested in techlogy and engineering to make app more efficient.

"We have worked a lot within app so that if a customer feels unsafe y can immediately report about same. We have laid down strict guidelines in dealing with complaints to ensure re is discrimination or harassment," Lee ded.

When asked if company is planning to hire more women drivers, she said, "we are focusing on this aspect. But when we talk to women drivers, y talk about safety and refore safety has been our priority."

Lee, who was global diversity and inclusion officer at risk visory and insurance broker company Marsh, was appointed by Uber under new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi after company received several complaints of sexual harassment on a blogpost by former software engineer Susan Fowler. During session, she also ted that res also a need to talk about racial, ethnic, religious, ecomic status and LGBT diversity as well as disability in India in way its being discussed in rest of Asia.

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" challenge with diversity and inclusion is that you will make people deeply uncomfortable and challenge peoples views about how a workplace should look, she said.

re is a need to have conversations about sexual orientation at workplace," Lee ded.