"People stayed because of what working in the Cuomo administration could mean for their careers; many former staffers hold top positions in government, public relations, technology, finance, and other companies."
Old story. Change the profession, change the city, change the administration. It's always about power, always will be.
"Everything down to the room temperature (between 67-71 degrees) had to be just so. Year-round, staff would place two small fans behind his speaking podium to keep him cool."
It's like they're looking for the worst dirt and this was the best they came up with. Because...
"None of the staffers who spoke to Gothamist/WNYC said they witnessed sexual harassment or sexual misconduct by the governor."
Powerful people have powerful egos. People who want to be adjacent to power will do just about anything to stay there. People who don't, who see what destruction the grinding gears can do to them - save themselves and get out.
I'm currently watching a series called Damages starring Glenn Close. It ran from 2007-2012, and she plays a successful - and ruthless - top tier lawyer called Patty Hewes who gets the job done. Not always ethically, not always by the rules, and she will destroy anyone who gets in her way. A narcissistic ego the size of a house. The people who work for her jumped at her every word, but they stayed with her for the power and the success they could achieve in her orbit. She knew it, and they knew it.
Just bringing that up because in reading the Gothamist article about Cuomo I kept thinking "Patty Hewes!" 
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