*Updated: Daniel Alegre, President and Chief Operating Officer of Activision Blizz🐽ard, has released the following response:
"Activision Blizzard is committed to inclusive hiring practices and to creating a diverse workforce; it is essential to our mission. Vice completely mischaracterized the SEC filing made by our outside attorneys. In fact, our hiring practices are rooted in ensuring diversity for all roles. We engage in this aggressively and successfully. Our objection was rooted in the fact that the AFL-CIO proposal failed to adequately consider how to apply these practices in all of the countries we operate in.
Our games have uniquely influenced popular culture and have helped to increase tolerance and inclusion through their connectivity as well as the heroes we portray and our stories that celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion in so many powerful ways.
In order to ensure that our games stay true to our mission--to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment--we require that all candidates of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, races and sexual orientations are considered for each and every open role. We aggressively recruit diverse candidates so the workforce provides the inspired creativity required to meet the expectations of our diverse 400 million players across 190 countries. We remain committed to increasing diversity at all levels throughout Activision Blizzard worldwide."
According to a new report from Vice, gaming giant 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision Blizzard has rejected a diversity hire proposal from AFL-CIO on the grounds that it is an "unworkable encroachment" on the way the company operates. While AFL-CIO would like Activision to start including more women and POC in its hiring process, Activision conversely believes that will compromise its ability to find new talent "in a highly competitive, fast-moving market."
This whole situation began earlier this month with (which is The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) submitted proposals that asked both Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts to adopt new pol𒁏icies that would mandate the inclusion of women and POC in its pool of candidates for any open positions at the company. This is, essentially, similar to the "" that the NFL operates with.
In letters to both companies, the AFL-CIO states, "The purpose of the requested Diverse Candid𓆉ate Search Policy is to assure that the Company's recruitment pools for external hires are adequately diverse. A diverse workforce at all levels of a company can enhance long-term company performance."
Initially, Activision Blizzard seemed like it was on the same page. "Our talent is the lifeblood of Activision Blizzard. W🦄e value the diversity of the Activision Blizzard community and understand that our employees and players come from a wide arrayཧ of backgrounds," it responded to the initial proposal. "We have put in place a series of new programs like our scholarship programs with the United Negro College Fund and the Equal Justice Initiative. These high school scholarship funds help develop the best and brightest future diverse talent, setting them up with mentors and internships designed to ensure earlier su𒁏ccess in their careers."
For whatever reason, on January 19, the company started to backpedal fr🔯oꦫm that response. Attorney's representing Activision Blizzard requested that the SEC declare the company exempt from this new proposal on the grounds that it didn't meet for new proposals. Then came the now infamous quote.
"While the Company has implemented a Rooney Rule policy as envisioned [for director and CEO nominees]," writes Activision's attorney, "implementing a policy that would extend such an approach to all hiring decis𓂃ions amounts to an unworkable encroachment on the Company's ability to run its business and compete for talent in a highly competitive, fast-moving market."
Shockingly, Electronic Arts is on board with the proposal. Writing to AFL-CIO, the company said, "We're in reg🍸ular conversations with our sha🙈reholders and we value the feedback we receive. In accordance with our standard procedures, EA's Board of Directors will consider the stockholder proposal."
Vice's report continues beyond this point to show how systemic racism and sexism in these corporations is a massive issue. Anyone with half a brain can tell you that, but a small portion of people on social media will fight against you for "virtue signaling" or some nonsense. At any rate, it seems Activision Blizzard is going to have a long battle in its future that it will ultimately lose. Considering 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:how shady 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the company's past is, none of this blatant racism surprises me.
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