Video game giant Activision Blizzard Inc., maker of games including World of Warcraft and Diablo, fosters a “frat boy” culture in which female employees are subjected to constant sexual harassment, unequal pay, and retaliation, according to a lawsuit filed by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. A two-year investigation by the state agency found that the company discriminated against female employees in terms and conditions of employment, including compensation, assignment, promotion, and termination. Company leadership consistently failed to take steps to prevent discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, the agency said. According to the complaint, filed Tuesday in the Los Angeles Superior Court, female employees make up around 20% of the Activision workforce, and are subjected to a “pervasive frat boy workplace culture,” including “cube crawls,” in which male employees “drink copious amounts of alcohol as they crawl their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behavior toward female employees.” The agency alleges male employees play video games during the workday while delegating responsibilities to female employees, engage in sexual banter, and joke openly about rape, among other things. Female employees allege being held back from promotions because of the possibility they might become pregnant, being criticized for leaving to pick their children up from daycare, and being kicked out of lactation rooms so male colleagues could use the room for meetings, the complaint says. Female employees working for the World of Warcraft team noted that male employees and supervisors would hit on them, make derogatory comments about rape, and otherwise engage in demeaning behavior, the agency alleges. The suit also points to a female Activision employee who took her own life while on a company trip with her male supervisor. The employee had been subjected to intense sexual harassment prior to her death, including having nude photos passed around at a company holiday party, the complaint says. The agency seeks an injunction forcing compliance with workplace protections, as well as unpaid wages, pay adjustments, back pay, and lost wages and benefits for female employees. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture #gaming #activision
Wow wonder how their PR firm is gonna spin this
Their Blind company rating has dropped to 2.8 🤣
That's going to be the lowest rating that I personally know of then.
Holy crap that's lower than Amazon.
A female employee committed suicide because of Blizzard, holy shit
The context is even worse
That seems like Activision, not blizzard.
Hopefully things will get cleaned up. It’s been terrible here for couple years.
Why not move on? You could get a much better position at another AAA Publisher with a far better culture, Naughty Dog, Rockstar and Microsoft all have it much better. (although Naughty Dog has bad Work Life balance)
Never understood, why should we change culture in company, that is ok for 95% of employees?
Did you even read the article? Never mind the harassment and employees sharing nude photos of a female employee who later committed suicide, it also says 20% of their employees are female.
Not that I believe any of the allegations but nobody will shed a tear for Blizzard. Play woke games - win woke prizes.
What are you chatting about
Ha, incel detected.
ITT: The sort of people who deny/defend sexism in the industry, attack “woke culture”… and are probably offended by the new Lil Nas X video. 🤡
Also are most likely involuntary virgins
Lol reading all these posts. Not sure if this is Blind or someone went ahead and installed Parler without my permission.
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Activision Blizzard is always getting negative employer related press. Constant lay offs, toxic work place, crunch time, and overall being a nightmare for women to work at. Leadership must be awful for this long standing of a company to have such a bad culture.