What you can learn from the Activision crisis
Accusations of widespread harassment, a state lawsuit and a poor initial response prompted an employee walkout. Here’s what to take away from this cautionary workplace tale.
A worker walkout is perhaps one of the most difficult crises to manage.
It’s one thing when chaos arrives from outside sources or external circumstances. But when turmoil arises from within, internal blowups can be an extremely damaging reputational hit. Especially when the situation escalates in a very public manner.
This describes what’s unfolding at Activision Blizzard, one of the world’s largest video game makers, where employees staged a walkout Wednesday, July 28, to demand better working conditions for women following the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s lawsuit that alleged a “pervasive ‘frat boy’ culture” and widespread sexual harassment and discrimination. Employees listed four demands.
The #ActiBlizzWalkout 💙 is happening today because a woman was literally sexually harassed to death. Because discrimination and mistreatment against the marginalized is pervasive and the company continues to deny it. Workers have no other choice. And they have four demands. pic.twitter.com/jrAxwHN31K
— The Strix (@the_strix) July 28, 2021
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