Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been criticized in many ways for deliberately concealing multiple internal sexual harassment cases and suspected abuse and threats to female employees. This includes Activision Blizzard employees, company investors, and business partners.
At present, more than 1,300 own employees have signed a petition asking him to resign. According to the Wall Street Journal report, Kotick met with Blizzard’s senior management on Friday and told them that if he could not quickly resolve the company’s internal cultural issues, he would consider leaving the company.
The Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Bobby Kotick, who has led Activision for 30 years, did not say that he would resign when meeting with Blizzard executives, but if the company’s internal misconduct cannot be resolved quickly, there will be this possibility.
The report also pointed out that, according to people familiar with the matter, at another meeting on Friday, Activision’s distribution executives told Kotick that some employees were very dissatisfied unless he resigned. Kotick said that he was ashamed of some incidents during his tenure and apologized for the way he handled these problems.
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Foreign media Kotaku said angrily that this was nonsense. In 2008, Kotic took over the reborn Activision company. The cultural problems he referred to are a kind of systemic harassment, misogyny, and abuse, and these problems are formed in years of cultural neglect. It is said that sometimes Kotick himself is an instigator, but is protected.
This sensational lawsuit came to light in July. Kotaku said he has several months to solve this problem. Instead, he appointed the first female co-leader Blizzard during this time, but soon resigned after feeling “marked, marginalized, and discriminated against.”
Kotaku reported that Kotick should not “consider” resigning, he should have done so long ago.
