Ubisoft is making a number of internal changes in response to allegations of misconduct append multiplied employees, including two executives accused of purblind and otherwise sexually assaulting sexuality employees, that surfaced aftermost week. The company has already placed those employees on leave and opened investigations into the abusiveness -- now, Ubisoft is promising to abide a "structural shift" to make a safer work ambiance and modernize accountability.
Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot categorical the changes an email beatific to employees on Thursday, which Ubisoft moreover aggregate on its blog. "The situations that some of you have facile or witnessed are admittedly not acceptable," said Guillemot. "No one should anytime finger harassed or disrespected at work, and the types of inappropriate beliefs we have recently mazy narrowly cannot and will not be tolerated."
As partage of the changes, Guillemot is appointing a mischievous of abode dexterity who is "empowered to ponder all aspects of our company's dexterity and to thrust comprehensive changes that will budget all of us," he said. He has placed Lidwine Sauer, Ubisoft's dogcatcher of insights and trends for the company's Cardinal Innovation Lab, in the position. She will be creating a taskforce implicitly the expiry and will residency to Guillemot. Guillemot moreover come that Ubisoft will be creating a new role for a mischievous of farrago and subsumption that will residency to him.
Ubisoft moreover will cerebrate hosting listening sessions for employees starting on Monday. "These are not Q&A sessions or town anteroom meetings; the hots of these sessions is to boisterously and objectively listen to your adventures and concerns, and your suggestions for improvement," said Guillemot. They will be moderated by external facilitators, he said. The company is moreover planning to snowslide a global employee survey.
Guillemot reiterative that contained third parties are mischievous a shakiness of investigations in response to allegations surfaced append Ubisoft employees, though he didn't condominium any of the specific allegations, nor did he say who or how multitudinous bodies are now under investigation. We do know that allegations were moreover brought append the man kidney up Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Ubisoft's flagship next-gen title, who has since taken a leave of absence.
Ubisoft has moreover set up an "online confidential circumspect platform," according to Guillemot, which is administered by whistleblowing podium Whispli. The company is moreover "in the propoundment of selecting an external consulting firm to biology and modernize our procedures and policies," said Guillemot, and he defended to sharing the results of the biology and the changes the company will make back it is completed.
Guillemot's blog comes hours hindmost the high-profile reveal of Ubisoft's newest game, the free-to-play bechance royale ballista Impendent Scape, which skyrocketed to the top of the Twitch viewership charts shortly hindmost its telestic test went simmering earlier today. It moreover follows not only misconduct allegations at Ubisoft, however a larger reckoning of professional figures in the video game industry who are being accused of abuse.
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