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Phil Spencer is reevaluating the Xbox ratio with activision after allegations against Bobby Kotick

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In an email aimed at your workers, Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, has ensured being revaluing all aspects of the relationship that the company maintains with Activision Blizzard after the accusations published on Tuesday against Bobby Kick. Although the document does not specify what kind of aspects is taking into account, it does add that both Spencer and the Game Division Directive are disgusted and deeply concerned by detailed events in the WSJs report: This type of behavior It does not take place in our industry », we read in the mail. This criticism of Spencer joins which Jim Ryan also realized in an internally few days ago: Activision has not made enough to face a culture of discrimination and harassment very rooted, wrote the CEO of PlayStation.

The pressure to dismiss Kick does not come only from outside the company. The ABETTERABK workers organization has shared a document signed by more than 2000 developers who, with its name, last name and placed in the organization, demand the march of Kick: We, the signatories, do not have confidence in the leadership of Bobby Kick As CEO of Activision Blizzard », we can read in the letter, The different information that has come to light on its behavior and its practices when directing the company act against the culture and integrity that we require in a leader And directly attacks the initiatives launched by our colleagues ». According to the last report for investors, Activision Blizzard has almost 9500 employees around the world at this time.

Despite these criticisms, from Activision Blizzard they continue to openly position themselves in favor of their CEO: We respect all the comments of our valuable partners, and we commit ourselves to discuss with them. We have detailed some of the important changes that we have applied in recent weeks, and we will continue to do so. We are committed to the work of ensuring that our culture and our workplace are safe, diverse and inclusive. Furthermore, we know that it will take time, but we will not stop until we have the best workplace for our team, we can read in a statement aimed at Bloomberg.

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