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Former Ubisoft executives “taken into custody” over sexual abuse claims, according to reportsUbisoft “has no knowledge of what has been shared”
Ubisoft “has no knowledge of what has been shared”
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Image credit:Ubisoft
The reported police intervention followsallegations of widespread sexual harassment and abuse at several Ubisoft studios, which began to surface in summer 2020. These included allegations of rape, bullying and racist and homophobic jokes. One creative director was said to have choked a female employee at a party. In this week’s Xitter thread, SIJVaccusedthe publisher’s leadership of “allowing harassment to flourish, because it was considered more profitable for the company to leave predators in place than to protect employees.”
The allegations led to a wave of departures, as Ubisoft carried out an internal investigation. Françoiswas placed on disciplinary leave on 7th July 2020, while Hascoët together with global HR head Cécile Cornet and Yannis Mallat, manager of Ubisoft’s Canadian studios,resigned on 12th July 2020.
“We have significant work to do to improve the ways in which we operate and collaborate, and I am personally committed to ensuring we make these fundamental changes,” Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemotsaid at the time. “They need to be profound, and we need to implement them quickly at all levels of the organisation.”
