It could also just be lip service and virtue signaling I mean it’s not like we haven’t heard this before from Activision Blizzard.
The part of the suit they are responding to specifically are the cases where women were passed up for promotions because they favored men that weren’t as qualified and laid off women that complained to HR.
The woman that harassed men is not in the right either, and was let go.
Just going to correct something incase anyone hasn’t done so yet, Blizz want’s to increase their female/non-binary employee number -BY- 50%, they’re not trying to go 50/50 down the middle.
Will say, a diverse work environment can be a good thing, however I’m slightly skeptical of how they’ll go about doing this since I’m someone who believes race or gender should not be considered when in regards to hiring someone.
If they do down this route, I’m not gonna go ranting and raving, probably more so being very amused at the odd step backwards they had to take to achieve this, haha.
For sure, we could revisit this in a year and nothing has changed. But that’s on them if they want to pay out in the now three lawsuits. One that’s from their own investors.
What ever happened to hiring the best available to perform a job regardless of sex or race?
It should be equal opportunity not equal outcome.
The world has gone nuts.
They’re increasing the amount of women and non-binary people.
Trans people, especially male identifying trans people be like, ???
Money is basically meaningless to him. You know? I heard something about Sotheby’s auctioning off a rare first print run Penny Black (No that’s not a racial thing). First Postage Stamp ever made right? He could literally just roll his eyes at the auction, outbid everyone there, and throw an extra 10 million on top of the final price just to troll everyone.
They would be whatever gender they identify so I’d like to think they still fall in those categories of hires.
Now if only they would make an effort to communicate with their players, as well as investors…
I’ll bite.
Because different demographics have different interests and pursue different careers, and the populations in America are wildly different.
I’ll give you an example from my own field.
TV and internet technicians are over 97% male. Any metric you find in hiring will reflect that this is not because female applicants are turned down, but because they apply in a much smaller quantity. The interest just isn’t there for that kind of labor. 60% of the population of the United States is “white” and we see a much smaller difference in the ratios of applications between races than genders. This results in a nearly 1:1 ratio in applications by race to the general population by race. That is because it is a decent paying job for those from both the lower and middle classes.
The result? There are more “white male” (oh no!) technicians across the board than other combinations of race and sex.
And not a single step of that process has a thing to do with discrimination. In fact, it’s literally the opposite, and imposing quotas on that doesn’t fix anything.
If anything, the main critique of that entire process is the fact that anyone even thinks it’s not gross to categorize and draw off statistics on your workforce by race.
Like, what are we actually even talking about here?
The fact that more female and minority people don’t apply for certain kinds of jobs is evidence of a systemic imbalance.
This is why I’m looking at starting LGBT in stem and disabled in stem student support organizations at my university.
So in that letter I see that Bobby confirms that there is a gender pay gap that favours women over men (women working for ATVI in the US earn more on average than men), but I didn’t see him mention how he is going to address that or close the gap so that women are paid the same as men, which is what is always advocated for?
This could be applied to a lot of things, but not video games.
Everyone plays video games (with the highest demographic being middle aged women) and a ton of different backgrounds go into that field.
Plus we have direct examples in the lawsuit of blizzard crappy hiring process and promotion giving. They need direct change.
Prob to keep their months quit about all the harassment. More money isn’t quit the advantage if your getting groped at work constantly
I hope, so.
Bobby koticks net worth is 600 million dollars.
Dude could live salary free for the rest of his life and wouldn’t even notice.
Not very impressive tbh
That is incorrect, regarding gender at least.
Scandenavian countries are arguably the most egalitarian states on the face of the planet currently, and we still see a difference in occupation by gender that has to be a result of difference of interest exclusively, as other biases are essentially controlled for.
I agree with you in that all people should be on equal footing in regards to education, and therefore equal in opportunity to pursue these fields, however, the clear endeavor should be on reforming and bolstering education systems to allow an unrestricted pursuit of interest, rather than mandating quotas to make it look nice, but not address the underlying issue.
He’s probably just talking about Fran Townsend’s pay.
My point was it’s difficult for the rich to just not hoard ALL their money. So even this is something
This is tragic. How is he going to continue to live in California?