Mike Ybarra’s comments in an all-hands meeting upset some employees, but to what end? This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check back every Friday for a new entry. Morale at Activision Blizzard took a hit this week, which is probably a lead we could have used for any This Week in Business column of the past year and a half. This time the problems stemmed from a Blizzard Entertainment all-hands meeting that was reported on by Game Developer . The intent of the meeting was to discuss the results of an internal employee satisfaction survey, but whatever those results were, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra put on a performance that probably made them worse. In the Q&A section of the meeting, Ybarra addressed the recent decision to cut employees’ profit-sharing bonus by almost half, which couldn’t have gone over well considering Blizzard had just finished one of its strongest quarters in years , nearly doubling its operating income thanks to the launch of Overwatch 2, the mobile hit […]
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