Through a letter addressed to the Board of Directors of Activision Blizzard, a small group of shareholders has requested the gear of the company s CEO, Bobby Kick, as a result of the information published in the last report from The Wall Street Journal: Unlike what he said in his previous communiqués, CEO, Bobby Kick, was aware of several incidents of sexual harassment, sexual abuse and gender discrimination at Activision Blizzard, but failed so much when making sure that the Executives and those responsible were dismissed, as if recognizing and approaching the systemic nature of the company s hostile culture, we can read in the letter, which represents the owners of about 4.8 million in the company s shares.
In addition to the Kick March, these shareholders demand that the two veterans of the Board, Brian Kelly and Robert Morgan, announce the withdrawal of it before December 31. If he does not meet his requirements, this group will not vote in favor of the re-election of the current board of directors at the annual shareholders meeting: After the new disclosures it seems clear that the current directive has failed repeatedly by guaranteeing a safe workspace, what which is a basic function between its responsibilities ». This same group has been shown on other occasions very vocal in relation to the salary of Kick and other executives and members of the Board. However, and in response, the Board of Directors has expressed in an internal statement its trust in the Leadership of Bobby Kick.
This group of shareholders has not been the only one to press in favor of the output of Kick in the last hours. Jim Ryan, CEO of PlayStation, has criticized the company harshly in an internal mail sent to its employees: Activision has not sufficient to deal with a culture of discrimination and harassment very rooted», Write Ryan. According to the president, PlayStation has officially contacted the company to be interested in its plans for the future in relation to the different cases detailed in the article: We do not believe that their response statements correctly address the situation. A few hours before, Toys for Bob, Study that is part of Activision Blizzard, published in its social networks a statement in support of women and workers of the company, aligning with the intentions of the Abetterabk Group of Employees.
In recent days, before the publication of the WSJ article, Activision Blizzard organized a virtual meeting with some of its workers to answer several pre-recorded questions related to the information that were going to be published. In addition to strengthening his support for Kick, the company s representatives made clear that his internal policy of zero tolerance can not be applied to the CEO and that they do not have evidence of their guilt since some of these cases spent more than a decade ago. They also led to the thanksgiving holidays of employees so that they were not at the offices at the time of publication of the article. Since then, several filtered messages from the Internal Slack of the company have confirmed that, indeed, Jen Oneal offered him less money by CO direct Blizzard than her companion Mike Ibarra. ONEAL has not pronounced so far.
All holders related to the multiple demands facing Activision Blizzard can be found in this link.
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