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California trial announcement follows against California's state of activity for harassment and sexism, the management of the American publisher has provoked a strong anger internally by totally rejecting the charges and minimizing the suffering of victims.
This anger motivated the writing of an open letter for the direction of Activision Blizzard and signed by more than a thousand group employees and a day of strike that took place yesterday at the Californian headquarters of The publisher. To try to calm the spirits, the CEO of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, also wrote a letter.
In the latter, the group's grand boss concedes that the management team of his company did not respond in the correct way to the situation, promises the holding of an audit conducted by an external law firm to Activision Blizzard, and announces the implementation of a series of measures to help victims. But obviously, it is not enough for the employees of the American giant.
Indeed, this epistolary novel of a new kind has just known a new chapter with a publication of a new open letter, transmitted to the American website, in which the activism employees Blizzard meet the message of Bobby Kotick. In this new text, they list what lacked in the measures announced by their management:
On the eve of the employee strike, the management of Activision Blizzard broadcast a statement in which he apologizes for his injurrant response to the trial brought last week by the DFEH. Although we are satisfied by seeing that all of our voices, which includes an open letter containing thousands of signatures of current employees, has convinced the management to change the tone of its communications, this answer does not achieve to address critical elements at the heart of fears of employees.
Activision Blizzard response did not address the following:
- The end of forced arbitration for all employees. - The participation of employees in the supervision of recruitment and promotion policies. - The need for greater transparency in terms of wages so as to ensure equality at this level. - The selection by the employees of an external company that will carry out an audit of the processes of the company including those in terms of human resources.
Today's strike will go up that it is not about a unique event that our leaders can ignore. We will not regain silence, we will not be appeased by the same processes that led us to get there.
This is the beginning of a sustainable movement in favor of better working conditions for all employees, especially for women, and more particularly for women in color, women transgender, non-binary people and other marginalized groups. .
We are waiting for a quick response and a management commitment to act on the topics listed above, and we look forward to maintaining a constructive dialogue on how to build a better Blizzard Activision for all employees.
Today we get up for change. Tomorrow and after, we will be change.
Activision Blizzard employees therefore seem to reproach their direction the taking of facade measurements intended to calm down and get things in order without making real changes. Other similar companies experienced in recent months, such as Ubisoft, for example, have taken similar steps such as auditing. But the returns of the employees concerned several months later indicate that according to them, these measures have changed nothing.
At a time when these lines are written, the direction of Activision Blizzard did not respond to these new requests.
What do you think of these new claims? Do you believe that the US giant employees will win? Do you think Bobby Kotick's response was sufficient? Do you think that profound changes can take place? Give us your opinion in the comments below.
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