Activision Blizzard workers protest the wave of dismissals: they demand the readmission of their peers
While Activision Blizzard has covered today because of the harassment cases, a series of situations of which Bobby Kick was fully conscious, the decisions of the company with respect to other areas return to the point of sight. Last week, a new wave of dismissals between the Testers of Raven Software was announced, study owned by Activision, but the rest of the employees have not been crossed with this event and have started a protest.
We are converting approximately 500 temporary workers in full-time employees Activision Blizzard As you inform Bloomberg, workers will not dissolve the protest until it occurs the readmission of their peers, who were part of the department of Quality and participated in the development of games such as Call of Duty: War zone. This not only responds to employees who have been dismissed, but also serves as an attack against the idea of do without more workers, because there are people in the company who still do not know if they will be ascended or dismissed.
For its part, Activision Blizzard has spoken with Polygon about this situation and has given the following answer: Activision Publishing is increasing its general investment in its development resources and operations. We are converting approximately 500 temporary workers in employees A Full time in the coming months. Unfortunately, as part of this change, we have also notified 20 temporary employees from the studies that their contracts will not be extended.
It will be seen by seeing how this dilemma is developed that returns to the workers against Activision Blizzard, as he remembers Jason Schrader, a journalist of Bloomberg, collective actions are not usually carried out in the field of the North American video game. For its part, Activision Blizzard is from the fall layer, since the inaction of the executives in the allegations of harassment and The lack of effective measures has led the company to fall by 25% in stock the last month.
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