Nearly a thousand (former) employees of the American Game publisher Activision Blizzard support the lawsuit against the company regarding discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace.
They have signed a letter calling the company’s response to the case “disgusting” and “offensive,” Bloomberg news agency reported. brief has in hand. At the end of last year, 9,500 people worked for the company.
The lawsuit was last week filed by the state of California and centered around sexism and sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard, publisher of well-known games such as Call of Duty in World of Warcraft. A supervisor spent two years investigating the abuses.
Machoculture
The indictment states, among other things, that women are paid less than men at the company and that there is a macho culture within the organization. Managers also allegedly harassed women.
A female employee is said to have committed suicide after having a sexual relationship with a supervisor. She is said to have done so on a business trip after male colleagues shared nude photos of her.
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