Blizzard Entertainment Employees Are Demanding Better Compensation
Blizzard Entertainment employees are organizing to demand fair pay, increased sick and vacation times, and other workplace requests. According to Bloomberg, over 870 employees are helping draft a list of demands using the company’s Slack network.
Blizzard employees have been complaining of unfair compensation for the past few years but the company’s top brass have yet to implement satisfactory pay changes. They also pointed out that comparable positions in other companies got paid 75% to 100% more than in Blizzard.
“In the employee document reviewed by Bloomberg, workers wrote that some are being paid below $40,000 a year. That’s less than half of the median household income in Irvine, California, where Blizzard’s main campus is based. The dynamics are having an impact on staff retention, according to the document. ‘Our mentors are leaving in droves,’ the employees wrote.”
Blizzard says that they will review the employees’ demands and will consider making changes to their compensation. “We will continue to adapt our compensation to build and keep the workforce our company needs today and tomorrow,” said a Blizzard representative. “We understand that some Blizzard employees have specific requests, and we look forward to hearing from them directly.”
Activision-Blizzard reported a revenue of $1.93 billion during their second quarter investor call earlier this week. The issues over compensation, however, didn’t even pop up during the call to the disappointment of the company’s employees.
