Activision Blizzard, the developer of the cult games of Warcraft and Call of Duty, fired dozens of employees for sexual harassment

Activision Blizzard, one of the largest in the field of computer games and entertainment, has fired 37 people from last July after complaints about sexual harassment and incorrect behavior at work. Another 44 people are brought to disciplinary liability. Reuters writes about this with reference to the company's statement.

The company’s report on the results of the internal investigation, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, had to publish in December 2021, but the CEO of Activision Blizzard Bobby Kotik decided not to do this. He explained that the press could distort data and exaggerate problems. The brief report on these measures states that over the past few months the company has collected about 700 reports of the inappropriate behavior of employees, some of them were talking about the same incidents, the newspaper writes.

Activision Blizzard in the summer of 2021 was in the center of the scandal. The United States Commission on equal rights in the field of employment accused the fact that women-employees are constantly undergoing sexual harassment, get a lesser salary for the same or more work than men, while they are more stringent requirements and do not promote the service. The company's employees claimed that the head of the company covered those involved in sexual harassment. In November 2021, several thousand employees demanded the dismissal of the cat. He admitted that he could resign.

Meanwhile, on January 18, 2022, the Microsoft Corporation announced the decision to purchase Activision Blizzard, the developer of the cult games Warcraft, Diablo and Call of Duty, paying $ 68.7 billion for it. For each Activision Blizzard camp One and a half times higher than the closing level of previous bidding ($ 65.39). After the announcement of the transaction, the cost of the Activision Blizzard papers on the premarket grew by about a third.

It is expected that the transaction will be closed in 2023 and after its closure, Microsoft will become the third largest game company in the world in revenue - after Tencent and Sony.