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Wall Street Journal report details new stories of abuse within company
In response to the report, employee group A Better ABK have called for Kotick to be replaced as CEO and are organising a staff walkout.
In the hours since its publication, Activision Blizzard have issueda defensive statementwhich says the Wall Street Journal’s article “presents a misleading view of Activison Blizzard and our CEO.” They cite recent improvements made within the company, “including a zero-tolerance policy for inappropriate conduct.”
Such a policy would seem to preclude Kotick continuing in his role as CEO.
The article also contains revealing details of Activision Blizzard’s response since the public allegations earlier this year.
The WSJ have also seen an internal email from Jennifer Oneal to Activision’s legal team. In the email, Oneal, who was appointed co-lead of Blizzard Entertainment earlier this year only tostep down within three months, expressed a lack of faith in the company’s leadership. She writes that she had been sexually harassed earlier in her career at the company, that she is paid less than the male co-lead of Blizzard, and that she has been “tokenized, marginalized, and discriminated against.”
