About 1,000 Activision Blizzard Employees Sign Letter Against Company Over Harassment

The company’s workers and former employees call their response to the lawsuit “abhorrent and insulting.”

Nearly a thousand employees and former Activision Blizzard employees have signed a letter sharply criticizing the company’s response to the recent allegations, Bloomberg reports . Last week we learned that one of the official agencies of the state of California , United States, had sued the company for alleged serious cases of sexual harassment, abuse, discrimination and machismo against its employees, all after an investigation of more than two years around the inaction of the company.

We don’t trust leaders to prioritize the safety of their employeesAB employeesIn the letter shared by the aforementioned media, Activision Blizzard employees called the company’s response to the lawsuit “abhorrent and insulting . ” Recall that, after hearing the lawsuit last week, Activision Blizzard issued a statement to the media where it denied the allegations in the document. The company claimed that the allegations do not reflect the “current situation” of the company, that they have already taken sufficient action in recent years to prevent harassment, and that the suicide of an employee listed in the lawsuit would not be related to the case.

As the letter shows, which you can read in its entirety on Bloomberg, Activision Blizzard employees completely reject the version that the company relates. “Our company executives have stated that they will take action to protect us, but exposed to legal action – and given the worrying official responses that followed – we do not trust our leaders to prioritize the safety of their employees over their own interests. “, relates this public letter signed by about 1,000 workers .

“To claim that this is ‘an irresponsible and baseless lawsuit’, as we watch so many employees and former employees expose their own experiences around harassment and abuse is simply unacceptable .” Activision Blizzard workers affirm that the official response, where the company denies all the allegations, only makes it difficult to find solutions to a problem as serious as the one contained in the lawsuit. And with this, they demand that the directive publish a new official statement where they recognize the seriousness of the accusations and show compassion for the victims.

They won’t silence us, we won’t back away, and we won’t budgeAB employeesLikewise, the employees demand that the management Frances Townsend , who sent the first statement denying the accusations, leave her position as executive representative of the company’s network of workers. “We ask the executive management team to work with us on significant new efforts to ensure that employees – as well as our community – have a safe place where they can get ahead and tell their stories.” The letter ends with a show of support for all colleagues who have been victims of the cases.

” They are not going to silence us, we are not going to back away, and we are not giving in until the company we love is a workplace that we can be proud to be a part of again. We will be the change .” Activision Blizzard’s management has not yet ruled on this letter, published on the afternoon of Monday, July 26, but we will be very attentive to its possible official response.