Allegations of sexual harassment against the company that produced the Call of Duty game.


California authorities have filed a lawsuit against the video game company Activision Blizzard, accusing the creators of popular games "Call of Duty", "Candy Crush Legend" and "World of Warcraft" "harassment." Incitement to suicide is only a supplement to a long list of moral issues in a department characterized by a strong patriarchy.

 The California Department of Fair Housing, which is responsible for investigating civil matters, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, stating that “almost all female employees” claimed that “working at Activision is like working at a men’s club. The Los Angeles Supreme Court v. Santa Monica, Inc. stated that the club includes “drinking Of men and sexually harassing women.

 The lawsuit listed some of the behaviors of male employees, including prejudicial comments about women, which accounted for about 20%. Group employees. The lawsuit states: “Male employees proudly work drunk during working hours and play video games for a long time, entrusting their job responsibilities to women.” The lawsuit states that these people “joked about their sexual relations and talked publicly about women’s bodies. , Joking about rape. "The video game industry is often seen as a male-dominated corporate culture characterized by sexual violence and misconduct. In the past year, such cases have increased significantly.

 After the sexual and violent behavior of some of its executives was exposed, Ubisoft was disbanded in the summer of 2020, causing many people to abandon it.A week ago, two former employees filed a lawsuit against the company and ten of its employees in the French court of Bobigny, including its CEO Yves Guillou. In February of this year, a former employee filed a lawsuit in a Los Angeles court. Confronted with the American video game company Riot Games, the owner of the famous League of Legends game, and its French president Nicolo Laurent. A special committee of the board of directors ruled in March last year that there was "no evidence" of the involvement of the company's president.

 Kinsey Gordon, a graduate student at the University of Alberta who studies how to use video games, said: "This behavior is well known in this industry, and what is absolutely new is that these companies are beginning to feel the impact." He told AFP , In order to prevent domestic violence and sexual violence. Direct corporate culture. He argues that this incident also shows that the harassment is often related to the corporate culture itself, “not to the responsibility of certain people. The complaint against Activision Blizzard went further, pointing out that an employee committed suicide while on a business trip. He believed that suicide might be related to Sexual harassment is related.

 Agence France-Presse received a statement yesterday saying it was “outraged at the scandal by the Ministry of Housing and Fair Employment” in response to its petition regarding the tragic suicide of an employee unrelated to the case. The allegation “was not Reflect the current working environment of Activision Blizzard"."In the past few years, since the beginning of this research, we have made important changes to improve the corporate culture and bring more diversity to our leadership team," he added. The final comment is in response to the further allegations in the complaint regarding wage policies and responsibilities, “very few of them are entrusted to women. The lawsuit found that women receive “lower wages” and “job opportunities are less important.” Finally, , The authorities accused the company of failing to adequately resolve employee complaints to the human resources department or superiors.

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