Honestly the main moral issue I saw was that many of these temp workers had just relocated. Also in previous communications it seemed they did not get adequate notice though ATVI says they did. I saw no allegation of discrimination on how those twelve were chosen and at the end of the day when the company crunches the numbers, it should know how many more permanent employees they need. It's not like they sacked half the department, it was a very small number of workers especially compared to how many were made permanent.
Why pay out for Q&A staff when you can have your payer base do the same job, and give your company money for the 'privilege'.Makes perfect sense from a business perspective... đŸ˜‘
This is kinda..... I mean they signed a temporary contract and they are shocked why they weren't renewal? I'm seeing in comments that 500 others people were transfer to permanent, so is perfectly fine tht 12 didn't enter in that process right? I mean... every company do that, hire temporary workers and then do not renew them, why is this a scandal? if you knw your job is temporary and there is no written agreement about you are going permanent you know you must be looking for a stable job.Every notice about activision is beeing stupid now
I, also gonna go on strike and post on social media because Blizzard wont hire me !
I expected to read through the comments and see responses that suggest people have no clue about running a business, being a contracted employee, or having good work ethics. I've seen contracted employees not get extended or hired as permanent employees without anyone getting all bent out of shape over it. I've seen contracted employees refuse offers to become permanent employees because the income was more, work hours were less, and additional reasons. This concept of striking over things like not hiring contracted employees will only come and bite you in the long run. Do these people really think it's better elsewhere and Activision Blizzard is a horrible company to work for just because they didn't hire these 12 people? Harassment is a good reason to strike. Not hiring 12 contract employees is not a good reason to strike.
Must be a US thing, in the UK typically IT contractors get paid more than permies, but they don't get any of the benefits like paid holiday or sickness.You can earn more, but it comes at the obvious risk if your contract isn't renewed and you can't get another and also you would be the first to go at a company that is struggling. Some of my friends did very well out of contracting, spending 6 months working in IT and 6 months holidaying and skiing.Bad contracts could definitely be exploitative and if all companies offering those, it doesn't leave much choice for those that obviously still need to work.