After the announcement of the future Assasin’s Creed who is divided, Ubisoft She is currently facing an even bigger problem: complaints of harassment against her employees, accompanied by a petition calling for major changes. After the studio has not responded, here is a new petition that makes more concrete demands.
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Ubisoft at the bottom of the wave? The recent announcement of a change of course for his future Assasin’s Creed Fans are deeply divided over licensing. The main bottleneck: model-style modelAssassin, namely a series of semi-open levels that break the hitherto welcomed scenario. Yves Guillermot, CEO of Ubisoft, decided to follow up on this to speak candidly to extinguish the start of the fire.
But this is another case that is currently spraying the identity of the French development studio. Several employees (former and current) have just signed a petition to end abuse within the company. She deplores abuses by the company, including allegations of harassment of some employees.
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In fact, it is a relaunch to demand better terms after another letter signed last August this time, who demanded that Ubisoft management better end the abuses at their company. She also offered her support to Activision Blizzard teams during the harassment allegations. In fact, on Tuesday, July 20, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which, among other things, is fighting “ Unlawful Discrimination at Work », a complaint against Activision Blizzard for denouncing “ongoing sexual harassment, including touches, comments, and developments” related to “corporate culture.”
This isn’t the first time the studio has faced such complaints. summer 2020signed survey launch A spate of allegations of sexual harassment and sexism were denounced, after which many of the studio’s big names were fired. Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, announced that steps will be taken to eliminate the need for the charges. However, nothing has changed since then.
To bring attention to the latest petition, a tweet was posted dropping this” You disappoint us, Mr Guillemot. 100 days, no request answered. You can certainly do better than that. This entire campaign, called #ABetterUbisoft, isn’t just about cancellation, it offers solutions for more security for employees. end of cycle” Promote or move known criminals from one studio to another ‘, as well as creating cross-industry collaborations Connect the management team and others to establish policies and procedures that help studios better address future issues.
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Ubisoft employees aren’t the only ones to rebel against the French company’s harmful corporate culture. Among them is Activision Blizzard, which announced its new zero-tolerance policy after complaints from several employees. Other cases have surfaced in various development studios, in the midst of the often tense work atmosphere.
Fortunately, these allegations sometimes bear fruit. At the beginning of May, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, director Witcher 3, suspected of harassment, so he left CD Projekt. Legal action has been taken against him, focusing on threats, mass actions and other accusations of crisis.
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