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Suddenly, the reason for the recent employee purge seems more clear. They never fired anybody for bad behavior before, and now, just soon to be aquired, they do
by BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Suddenly, the reason for the recent employee purge seems more clear. They never fired anybody for bad behavior before, and now, just soon to be aquired, they do.
- mzs 5y agohttps://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-blizzard-pushes-out-dozens-of-employees-over-workplace-misconduct-11642428001 https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-blizzard-pushes-out-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966958
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- koheripbal 5y ago20 employees out of 9500 employees is not significant. You are reading too much from too little.
- exikyut 5y agoThat answers the question "could there be enough groundswell to form a blowback," then :(
- tommiegannert 5y agoIt could be that the introduction of a process was part of the deal. That it only affected 20 might be a reason the deal was finalized.
- exikyut 5y agoFrom the link in the sibling comment: > A summary of those personnel actions was scheduled to be released by Activision before the winter holidays, but Chief Executive Bobby Kotick held it back, telling some people it could make the company’s workplace problems seem bigger than is already known, the people familiar with the situation said. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯