Harassment at Ubisoft: staff representatives regret to always be excluded from the decision-making process

It is through a statement that several employees and representatives of Ubisoft Annecy, Montpellier and Paris staff wanted to point the immobilism of the situation at the French publisher, after the numerous case of harassment within it. They demand to be included in the decision-making processes that follow the remonses of testimonials.

According to this communiqué, relayed by the STJV, this request would have been formulated for the first time by the different CSEs in July 2020, at the height of revelations and this in order to guarantee the integrity of the process as well as a impartiality form. It would have been repeated, first in September and October of the same year, before a temporary process, set up between November and March, only allow three representatives chosen by the CSEs to have access to es Anonymized and quantitative data only, at a monthly point. Point in which they would have been in a position to request additional information in the event of a lack of investigation or sanction.

Since the end of this temporary mechanics, the CSEs would have repeatedly reiterated their requests to be part of this time this time the case of recovery of cases and testimonies. The group would have repealed the deadline several times before finally expressing its refusal last September, even to give staff representatives a simple role of observers.

At the same time, the direction of Ubisoft would have decided to put in place a new team evaluation criterion, in addition to the five pre-existing. Baptized incarrinate the exemplarity according to the information of the communiqué, it would encompass vague skills, such as faire proof of empathy, to be inclusive · ve or aview a constructive approach. A handle effect according to employees, which aimed to give the Group s responsibilities to that of individuals, while offering a new marginalization lever to managers who would like to dismiss the items that would not return in predefined boxes. On the side of the STJV, which represents some of the employees who took the floor but also other employees within Ubisoft, the withdrawal of this new scale and the integration of workers in the process of recovery case of harassment.

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