Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra wants to change some things in the company in the future, as he did in one Blogpost announced. With the announced changes, Blizzard is probably primarily concerned with restoring the players’ trust in the developer. According to Mike Ybarra, that is the top priority. We summarize the most important statements from the Blizzard boss for you.
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Measures to improve corporate culture
Aimed at improving corporate culture more full-time positions and resources be provided, it says in the blog post. This will result in a new team, whose management positions will also be announced:
- An agent or Corporate Culture Officer should help Blizzard
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brings in. - A new organizational one Manager in the HR department should help
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and acreate a safe and positive work environment for everyone
. - After all, the new position should be one or one Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Officer be occupied.
Furthermore be the Size of compliance and investigation teams tripled been. These are intended to ensure that all employees – leadership and management are specifically mentioned – for unacceptable
behavior should take responsibility.
Conversely, the success and remuneration of leadership and management should also be linked to the progress made in improving the corporate culture. A so-called upward feedback program should also help to better assess the work of managers. This should also increase the trust of the employees in the management.
Blizzards repeatedly assured in the announcement that they were serious about the change and that they would listen to criticism. The announced measures should therefore only be the beginning.
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Only time will tell how successful and far-reaching the announced and future measures actually are. The Games Website Kotaku points out that the announced measures do not include any demands made by the ABK Workers Alliance, which was founded at Blizzard in August 2021. It is also still unclear what the takeover by Microsoft will mean for the working environment at Blizzard. You can find out everything about what is probably the biggest deal in gaming history so far here:
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Finally, there is also a brief outlook on game development. This is what the blog post says:
We also know that we need to deliver content to our players more regularly and innovate both within and outside of our existing games. We have some exciting things to announce and I’ll share more next week.
What this statement means exactly cannot be said at the moment. However, it is hoped that next week we will have more concrete information on what innovations and announcements are planned.
