Activision Blizzard promises change while dodging employee demands

During today’s investor call, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick promised that change would come to the troubled publisher. However, he and other leaders failed to address specific demands and concerns that employees have made.

The company has come under fire since the State of California announced it was suing the publisher for sex discrimination. Since then, employees have staged a walkout and posted four demands in an open letter: an end to mandatory arbitration clauses in all employee contracts; the adoption of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and promotion policies designed to improve representation among all employees; publication of data on relative compensation; and a task force to hire a third party to audit the company’s reporting structure, HR department, and executive staff.