A yr in the past as we speak, worker group A Higher Ubisoft posted an open letter demanding extra substantial motion from Ubisoft administration to sort out alleged abuse inside the writer and its many studios. As we speak, A Higher Ubisoft provided an replace wherein they are saying that none of their calls for have been met and reiterate what they need.
A Higher Ubisoft was shaped within the aftermath of abuse allegations made by a number of present and former Ubisoft workers, together with in opposition to senior employees on the writer. On the time, Ubisoft dedicated to “basic adjustments”, however within the open letter final yr, A Higher Ubisoft stated these adjustments didn’t do sufficient.
“It’s one yr to the day that we signed our open letter to Ubisoft administration calling for FAR extra motion to sort out abuse and setting out our 4 key calls for,” begins today’s A Better Ubisoft update on Twitter. “None of our calls for have been met.”
They reiterated these 4 calls for in one other tweet as a part of the thread:
All of the extra purpose that one yr later, we imagine as strongly as ever that administration should have interaction with us and meet all of our 4 key calls for, to create #ABetterUbisoft and assist to #EndAbuseInGaming pic.twitter.com/p9kkDevVhW
— A Higher Ubisoft 🤍 (@ABetterUbisoft) July 28, 2022
They’re asking that Ubisoft “cease selling and shifting identified offenders from studio to studio, group to group with no repercussions”, in addition to a significant say of how the corporate strikes ahead, cross-industry collaboration on the way to take care of offences, and the involvement on this means of workers in non-managemnet positions and union representatives.
Final yr’s open letter was signed by 1000 present and former Ubisoft workers. A Higher Ubisoft allege that, of those that have been present workers after they signed the letter, 25% have since left the corporate. Of those who left, 39% use she/her pronouns. “Girls characterize simply 25.4% of our international workforce,” A Higher Ubisoft say on Twitter. “Which signifies that we’re massively disproportionately shedding ladies who signed our open letter calling for extra motion to sort out abuse.”
After the open letter was first launched final yr, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot responded with an electronic mail to employees wherein he wrote that that they had “made essential progress over the previous yr” and acknowledging that “not everyone seems to be assured within the processes put in place to handle misconduct reviews.” One yr later and so they do not appear any extra assured.