US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Vs Activision Blizzard | PDF | Civil Rights Act Of 1964 | Sexual Harassment
Filed 9/27/2021
Same charges as before - discrimination and harassment.
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Activision-Blizzard getting sued again; this time by US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Thread starter The_Iceman2288
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Same charges as before - discrimination and harassment.
We had a client that was sued by them back in 2018. That case is still in discovery last I checked. Depending on if it's different for massive companies I wouldn't expect anything from this anytime soon.
Activision-Blizzard mentioned this group in their recent press release.
investor.activision.com
Activision Blizzard | Activision Blizzard Provides Update on Workplace Initiatives
The Investor Relations website contains information about Activision Blizzard's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
Man, I can't imagine how much money these lawsuits are costing. I'm sure it's in the millions at this point. Let's hope it gets worse for them.
Activision going for the any% of government organizations suing us speedrun. I'm sure Weird Al will sue too.
I hope no one is thinking there will be a quick resolution to these cases. They will take years. Especially if Activision keeps trying to hide stuff.
Cha. Like something as silly as basic human rights and decency is going to stop me from playing Diablo.
Good. California and the federal government seem to want to make an example of Activision with all these lawsuits and investigations.
There's much more of a chance that Activision completely absorbs Blizzard; changes the name, makes all Blizzard teams internal Activision teams, Blizzard ceases to be its own entity and just becomes "Activision Irvine".
That would take massive swaths of people who tend not to follow this kind of stuff to care. These constant government lawsuits however has a better chance.
Blizzard as a company already has seen leadership change on a number of levels.
I think that's a personal decision everyone is going to have to make. Not buying their game hurts the rank and file people at those companies too. If I'm supporting a family, I would rather have a job at a company with a history of problems than get laid off.
it's also a lawsuit against a multi billion dollar company. Even though we know they are going to lose. They'll drag it out in court for as long as possible.
But you know that's not the head that they want. Unless they go to the C suite executives and yes that includes Kotick, those changes are surface level and throwing people boat.
I would agree with your point if it was just a blizzard issue and in argument could be constructed that Activision did not know. With everything else that's coming out including the destruction of evidence allegedly, no things are serious and with that being said some serious heads have to roll.
Personally I think folks miss the forest for the trees when they constantly want Kotick's head. Blizzard lost its president, has 2 co leads now instead who both have a good track record from all I've known/learned about them. Diablo 4 lost its game director/lead designer too. These aren't surface level changes and mean significant amounts for the teams involved is where I'm coming from. I know what people want in terms of departures, but I'm not a fan of pretending nothing has actually happened that matters. One of my project leads being fired and replaced with a new one would have a genuine effect on my team.
I think that brings us to 5 major government mandiated lawsuits?
Activision-Blizzard mentioned this group in their recent press release.
Activision Blizzard | Activision Blizzard Provides Update on Workplace Initiatives
The Investor Relations website contains information about Activision Blizzard's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
Literally a "get our name out of your mouth" scenario.
meh, they have a whole legal department of lawyers who are on salary. This isn't anything for them unless they get fined. And even then, wont be but a drop in the bucket compared to their quarterly profits.
Excellent. And while there's very likely still people there who haven been perperators or atleast complicit to the harassment and all around awful culture, things must have changed for better in the workplace. Any complaints going forward will surely be taken more seriously and bad actors don't just get away with their shit and protected. Everyone working on the company will think twice on how they behave. It's been good to see so strong action being taken against Acti-Blizz.
