One year on, A Better Ubisoft says none of its demands for improving workplace culture have been met
A quarter of employees who signed original open letter have subsequently quit.
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“A Better Ubisoft”,the internal group campaigning for improved working conditions at the French publisher, has said that its demands have not been met one year on from issuing an open letter decrying the publisher’s work culture.
The letter waspenned in solidaritywithActivision/Blizzard employees, who were striking to protest the company’s toxic culture of harassment and abuse. But the letter also called out similar problems atUbisoftthat were initially revealed in 2020. These included allegations of sexual assault and harassment againstseveral high-ranking Ubisoft employees, and a wider culture of ignoring or outright suppressing these problems that ran all the way up to the company’s executives.
Last year’s open letter claimed little had changed from 2020, despite assurances from Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot that he would “ensure that everyone…feels welcomed, respected, and safe.” The letter stated “It has been over a year since the first revelations of systemic discrimination, harassment and bullying within Ubisoft came out,” adding “We have seen nothing more than a year of kind words, empty promises, and an inability or unwillingness to remove known offenders.”
Now another year has passed, and A Better Ubisoft is saying once again that nothing has been done. In aTwitter threadbreaking down the situation, the organisation said that “none of our demands had been met.” It also stated that “25%” of the letter’s signatories had since quit Ubisoft, almost 40% of which were women. Since only a quarter of Ubisoft’s staff are women to begin with, this means that Ubisoft is “massively disproportionately losing women who signed our open letter calling for more action to tackle abuse.”
A better Ubisoft ended the thread by reiterating its demands, which are as follows:
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