Bobby Kotick finally responds to Activision Blizzard employees: our initial response was 'tone deaf'

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has issued a letter to all employees in the wake of a lawsuit alleging widespread sexual harassment and discrimination at the company. In the letter Kotick describes the company’s initial responses to the lawsuit as “quite frankly tone deaf,” and promises that leadership is “immediately evaluating managers and leaders across the company.” The letter comes the evening before a planned walkout by Activision Blizzard employees.

Activision Blizzard’s initial response to the lawsuit was fierce denial, with a spokesperson calling the claims “distorted and in many cases false.” Later the tone shifted, with Blizzard president J Allen Brack calling the lawsuit “extremely troubling” in an internal email, and Activision president Rob Kostich calling them “deeply disturbing.”

source: gamezpot.com