I'm not a lawyer, but reading on this, http://www.shouselaw.com/extortion.html#1 http://www.shouselaw.com/extortion.html#1, it's definitely not far fetched to c

I'm not a lawyer, but reading on this, http://www.shouselaw.com/extortion.html#1 http://www.shouselaw.com/extortion.html#1, it's definitely not far fetched to consider what is being done by Zynga as extortion. They're demanding an act from the employees under threat of personal/property injury (being fired). They would have been much better off simply firing them if they were underperforming. Sometimes voicing out the thought process is all that's required to make something extorsion. Like if I say "I'm going to sue you if you don't X, Y or Z" can be considered extorsion. Whereas simply suing them isn't.