Those who work in teams know this only too well: for some representatives of humanity it sometimes takes a while (if not a certain amount of time) before they recognize their mistakes.
It seems like it gets better to say. And that a known mistake is half forgiven. A year, five months, and a handful of days after the Liberation newspaper published an investigation denouncing toxic and repetitive behavior in Ubisoft’s “Editorial” division, the French giant pushed a door open and admits that its crisis management is the The expectations expressed by the employees were undoubtedly not met.
Without conviction
When Yves Guillemot recognized in the course of the investigation “Ubisoft could not guarantee its employees a safe and integrative work environment”, the changes are only slowly noticeable. Today the new director of so-called Human Resources Anika Grant, who was appointed in April, takes the floor to explain the internal ignition delay:
At the beginning of the crisis, we spent a lot of time making sure we had the right process, that we could research very quickly to get initial results. I think we missed the experience of our employees in the process. I don’t think we’ve always communicated enough with the people who reported a problem. Unfortunately, people have lost confidence in this process.
The advantage of opening doors is that nobody runs the risk of injuring themselves in order to use an adequate vocabulary.
Let the police do their job …
Anika Grant has been in office for a few months and is pleased that “the number of cases has decreased since last year,” but is careful not to specify which solutions will be implemented. Officially, Ubisoft “wonders” about the elements that will be revealed during the next Annual Review, a real issue if we recall the utter silence of those scandals during the last two editions of Ubisoft Forward.
The new director takes the opportunity to refute last year’s allegations that the company is content to relocate the most frequently accused officials:
It’s not in our practices. All cases reported to us have been investigated: if they still work at Ubisoft, these people have either been exonerated or punished. Ubisoft has not implemented a policy that would prevent our teams from publicly sharing their work experiences. We ask you to maintain a certain degree of confidentiality in order to protect the integrity of the process and the rights of all parties involved.
Will Anika Grant be heard? Nothing is less certain: This summer, some Ubisoft employees condemned “a year of kind words, empty promises, and inability or reluctance to fire known attackers.”. For its part, management was concerned about the high risk of exit, which led to many postponements.
