{"id":10750,"date":"2020-09-12T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=10750"},"modified":"2020-09-11T18:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T08:01:31","slug":"ubisoft-ceo-apologises-for-toxic-behaviour-at-the-company-ahead-of-forward-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/ubisoft-ceo-apologises-for-toxic-behaviour-at-the-company-ahead-of-forward-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft CEO apologises for toxic behaviour at the company ahead of &#8220;Forward&#8221; event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of today&#8217;s Ubisoft Forward event, Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot posted a video to the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ubisoft\/status\/1304087578094841856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account addressing recent events of &#8220;toxic&#8221; behaviour amongst some of the company&#8217;s upper-echelon across multiple countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This summer, we learned that certain Ubisoft employees did not uphold our company\u2019s values, and that our systems failed to protect the victims of their behaviour, I am truly sorry to everyone who was hurt. \u2013 Yves Guillemot<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in the year Ubisoft executives Serge Hascoet, Cecile Cornet, and Ubisoft Canada head Yannis Mallat departed the company amongst a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2020\/07\/12\/ubisoft-abuse-allegations-harassment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">number of\u00a0 harassment allegations<\/a>, with PR director<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2020-07-22-ubisoft-fires-pr-director-over-harassment-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Stone Chin<\/a> following not long after.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to addressing the company&#8217;s stance on unacceptable behaviour, Guillemot spoke to the regrettable use of an in-game symbol, where a raised-fist was used to represent a villainous revolutionary group in the mobile game Tom Clancy&#8217;s Elite Squad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Message From Our CEO Yves Guillemot | Ubisoft [NA]\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NbPQoO9O0R4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of today&#8217;s Ubisoft Forward event, Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot posted a video to the company&#8217;s Twitter account&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Ubisoft CEO apologises for toxic behaviour","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1364,10],"tags":[193,895],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions\/10753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}