Ubisoft hasn’t had the very best couple of years. A string of flops and disappointments means the corporate isn’t in the very best 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 nicely.
It was, in truth, about as dangerous as one in every of these emails can get, doing all the things from blaming employees for poor outcomes to advocating for additional work. Consequently, the union Solidaires Informatique—which has members at Ubisoft’s Paris places of work—has known 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 situations 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 response to Guillemot:
THE BALL IS IN OUR COURT
(however the cash stays in his pocket)
In his newest assertion, Mr. Guillemot publicizes a worrying future for Ubisoft.
If the request to staff to be “particularly cautious and strategic along 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 attempting 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: time beyond regulation, managerial stress, burnout, and so on.
Mr. Guillemot asks lots from his staff, however with none compensation. • Have salaries stored up with the excessive inflation of latest years?
• What concerning 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% enhance for all salaries, no matter annual will increase, to compensate for inflation. With the tons of of hundreds of thousands of euros obtained from Tencent, there’s cash within the coffers of the employers.
– the advance of working situations, with specifically the implementation of the 4-day week.
– transparency on the evolution of the workforce, each regionally and globally.
– a powerful dedication in opposition to disguised dismissals and a condemnation of abusive managerial insurance policies that push staff 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 no less than one further unannounced massive sport moreover Cranium and Bones, Avatar, and Murderer’s Creed Mirage. Guillemot calls it “the most important 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.