Employees of Activision Blizzard call for resignation of Townsend

The employees of Activision Blizzard have a manager of the gaming company in the crosshair: Frances Townsend. It is "Executive Vice President" at Activision Blizzard and Executive Sponsor of a network for female employees. From the post of the woman's network, she should resign, demand thousands of signatories of a letter to the management.

Where is that challenged? More than 2000 employees of Activision Blizzard have signed a letter that went to the company's bosses. This letter was also allowed some media.

What is challenged exactly? In the letter it says:

We call Frances Townsend to keep their word, and as an executive sponsor of the abbeemployee Women's Network, due to the harmful nature of their statement.

Furthermore, it said that the "internal statement of Frances Townsend" was "abominable and insulting". It was against everything that the signatories believe that Activision Blizzard should stand.

An "Executive Sponsor" is a manager in a company responsible for the success of a project. He or she provides about the values ​​of the project and is responsible for the project to the management.

"Activision Blizzard is today a great company with good values"

What a statement was that of Townsend? The journalist Jason Schreier had released the internal statement of Townsend on July 23. There she responded to the action of a California authority as "Chief Compliance Officer" and sponsor of the woman's network.

She said the lawsuit drawn a "distorted and untrue picture of the company", with "factually incorrect, old and related stories."

The company Activision Today is a "great company with good values". She connected to a company that she expected that her is encountered with appreciation and respect and which gives her the same opportunity as men. Just as it would have been in your time.

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• Jason Schreier (@jasonschreifer) July 23, 2021

The statement was therefore criticized, among other things, because

• Townsend only for 4 months at Activision Blizzard is
• It from its situation as a "high-ranking manager" and apparently not in the situation of female employees can move to lower levels

The internal statement had a completely different sound than the internal statements of the male chefs, Bobby Kotick and J. Allen Brack. That seemed more concerned and understanding.

Manager blocks own employees on Twitter

So the situation has developed since then: In the last few days, the tension between the employees of Activision Blizzard and Townsend has risen.

So Townsend spread an article on Twitter, which indicates the dangers of "Whistleblowings". So you call it when insiders turn into public with secret information.

This article and just the timing of the article was criticized on Twitter harsh. Like Jason Schreier and other avoids reports, Townsend reacted to block consistently people on Twitter: including Employees of Blizzard.

A manager who blocks their own employees is critically seen.

Townsend is a controversial figure anyway: she was a spokeswoman under US President George W. Bush and defended torture methods of the government in this function.

Between the lines, it becomes clear that many employees at Activision Blizzard not only believes that the manager loses their job as an "Executive Sponsor" of the woman's network:

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