Ubisoft: Few efforts against discrimination

The former Ubisoft employee Valerie (name changed) had their entry into the company in Montreal in 2018, was bothered with sexually at the beginning and was victims of racist utterances. She reported the incidents, but says nothing has been done. And although Ubisoft straight in the middle of the investigation because of the attacks in the FOCUS, she was repeated to victim misconduct of supervisors.

But after submitting their complaints about different reporting systems and has led half a dozen talks with supervisors and personnel managers, Valerie never received a solution for their case. At the beginning of 2021 she announced her job.

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• Ubisoft employee Valerie

I wish I could have continued my trip to Ubisoft, but I was truly affected by all the harassment, discrimination and toxicity I met, and how it was dealt with, she said in an interview with Kodak. I really hope that the situation for Ubisoft will get better, but so far you are not yet.

Valerie s History asks Ubisoft s declared commitment to revising its own workplace culture. Despite the separation of some public accused, the hiring of a new director of diversity and integration and a Chief Workplace Officer and the commissioning of an external company, Relies Expert Conrail, with the examination of employee complaints, report some current and former employees to Kodak, that the company s complaint process still feels completely useless.

The group of Absteatubisoft shared Kodak s statements of eight current and a former employee from various branches, which say that Ubisoft continues to ignore their complaints and demands for more responsibility despite the promised changes.

I have made a testimony about the Idaho platform, which referred directly to a case that a colleague had already reported, and never received an answer, no further questions, nothing, wrote one. Idaho is one of the anonymous reporting platforms that workers now have access.

I was fetish because of my ethnicity, wrote another one. They came not only late to the appointment, they did not follow my case correctly.

Others reported discriminatory remuneration, carriage of abuse stables and the obligation to secrecy their complaints.

Valerie reports that more than a year after her harassment and discrimination, for the first time she appeared at Relies Expert Conrail, that it has not received a message about the result of an investigation or a statement about why Ubisoft seized measures in their case or not has taken.

In their termination email to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot and three other employees of the company, she described the harassment and discrimination that she was exposed, as well as her frustration and disappointment about Ubisoft s inactivity.

Guillemot did not answer, but Lid wine verbs sour, the newly appointed head of the diplomatist culture department, wrote that she would reopen paler s file and the matter to Rash Nikkei, the recently appointed vice president for global diversity and integration would forward. There were several conversations, including one with both sour as with Nikkei, Valerie said, but ultimately nothing came out.