Activision Blizzard, they're cracking down following allegations of sexual
harassment and discrimination in the workplace. The video game
publisher fired more than 20 of their employees. 20
more are facing disciplinary action. In a letter to
employees, activision is saying that the new actions are
based on a number of increased reports over the last
few years. The company says it will expand their
ethics and compliance team with 19 new full time roles
that in order to create a more accountable workplace and
culture at the company. So just last month,
Activision in the U. S. Equal Employment opportunity
Commission had said that they had reached an agreement to
settle those claims. This also comes as the company
is trying to get the discrimination suit with the California
Department of Fair Employment and Housing thrown out of court
. Activision filed an application claiming that the D.
F. E. H. Uh excuse me,
lawyers should be disqualified because of conflict of interest there
, alleging those lawyers previously worked for the equal employment
opportunity commission here now in gadget is mentioning here,
which is interesting. According to the financial times,
those 20 employees that got removed uh video game developers
and a few supervisors and they're none of them were
senior management. One of them were basically higher up
executives whatsoever