Ubisoft hasn’t had the perfect couple of years. A string of flops and disappointments means the corporate isn’t in the perfect form because it heads into 2023, so in an try to get everybody firing final week CEO Yves Guillemot despatched an e-mail to employees telling them “The ball is in your court docket”. It didn’t go down effectively.
It was, actually, about as dangerous as considered one of these emails can get, doing every part from blaming employees for poor outcomes to advocating for further work. Consequently, the union Solidaires Informatique—which has members at Ubisoft’s Paris workplaces—has referred to as for a strike subsequent week.
The union is looking the strike to not solely protest Guillemot’s dismissive feedback, however to additionally name for higher pay and circumstances on the firm, specifically a ten% payrise to account for the inflation disaster and the implementation of a four-day working week.
Right here’s their assertion in full:
CALL FOR STRIKE UBISOFT PARIS
FRIDAY JANUARY 27-AFTERNOON
In accordance with Guillemot:
THE BALL IS IN OUR COURT
(however the cash stays in his pocket)
In his newest assertion, Mr. Guillemot pronounces a worrying future for Ubisoft.
If the request to workers to be “particularly cautious and strategic together with your spending” is ironic contemplating the corporate’s editorial technique of the previous few years, it isn’t humorous. When Mr. Guillemot speaks of “attrition” and “organizational changes”, it means: employees reductions, discreet studio closures, wage cuts, disguised layoffs, and so on.
On a number of events, Mr. Guillemot is making an attempt to shift the blame (as soon as once more) onto the staff; he expects us to be mobilized, to “give it our all”, to be “as environment friendly and lean as doable”. These phrases imply one thing: extra time, managerial stress, burnout, and so on.
Mr. Guillemot asks rather a lot from his workers, however with none compensation. • Have salaries saved up with the excessive inflation of current years?
• What in regards to the implementation of the 4-day week?
• What has been put in place for the groups that come out of the productions exhausted (like these of Simply Dance or Mario)?
We demand:
– a right away 10% improve for all salaries, no matter annual will increase, to compensate for inflation. With the a whole bunch of tens of millions of euros obtained from Tencent, there’s cash within the coffers of the employers.
– the advance of working circumstances, with specifically the implementation of the 4-day week.
– transparency on the evolution of the workforce, each domestically and globally.
– a powerful dedication towards disguised dismissals and a condemnation of abusive managerial insurance policies that push workers to resign.
And since Mr. Guillemot and his clique solely perceive the connection of energy, Solidaires Informatique is looking on the staff of Ubisoft Paris to go on strike on Friday 27 January within the afternoon, from 2 to six pm.
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Subsequent fiscal 12 months, which runs by means of March 2024, Ubisoft stated it plans to launch at the very least one extra unannounced huge recreation in addition to Cranium and Bones, Avatar, and Murderer’s Creed Mirage. Guillemot calls it “the largest pipeline in Ubisoft historical past” in his e-mail to employees and stated he’s excited to share extra at this 12 months’s E3 convention in June.