"Abhorrent and insulting."
Close to 1,000 Activision Blizzard employees past and present have signed an open letter condemning the company’s response to a recent discrimination lawsuit.
Bloomberg, the same outlet that reported on the lawsuit filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing over what it deemed a “frat boy” culture, today reports that the letter calls Activision Blizzard’s official response “abhorrent and insulting”.
Responding to Activision Blizzard’s claim that alleged matters in the lawsuit were “distorted, and in many cases false,” the open letter says employees “no longer trust” that Activision Blizzard leadership “will place employee safety above their own interests”.
The lawsuit has caused a number of former Activision Blizzard staff to apologise for in-office culture. Former Senior VP of Story Chris Metzen took to Twitter to “offer you my very deepest apologies for the part I played in a culture that fostered harassment, inequality, and indifference,” while Blizzard Co-Founder and former CEO Mike Morhaime took to TwitLonger to say, “I am ashamed. It feels like everything I thought I stood for has been washed away. What’s worse but even more important, real people have been harmed, and some women had terrible experiences.”
We’ll keep you up to date as this situation progresses.
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