Activision Blizzard gets hit with another sexual harassment lawsuit

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Activision Blizzard has been served yet another lawsuit over harassment in the company. The unnamed plaintiff is still an employee of the game developer. She has sued the company in a Los Angeles court, claiming it allegedly enabled sexual harassment and discrimination. According to the complaint, the company retaliated against her when she shared her experiences at a December 2021 press conference. 

Like what's mentioned in past suits, she accused Activision Blizzard of routinely allowing misconduct. This senior administrative assistant in IT was reportedly pressured to join in "cube crawls," where women were harassed and groped and told to tolerate the unwanted sexual advances and excessive drinking. According to the lawsuit, she was asked to keep her complaints private. She supposedly faced an increasingly hostile workplace the more she spoke out about the issue.

She said she applied elsewhere in the company to avoid sexism in IT, and she wrote to then-president Allen Brack about the problems. She was offered and took a lower-paying role elsewhere in the company but said her application for an executive assistant job was rejected in December 2021, shortly after she applied in November.

The plaintiff is seeking damages, including lost earnings and medical expenses. She's also looking for more functional reforms in the company, including CEO Bobby Kotick's ousting, use of a neutral firm to investigate the incidents, and a rotating human resources team to avoid conflicts of interest.

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