Jason Schreier

And so there's been a ton more pressure on the Xbox folks over the last year to get

super profitable get those profits up and a large part of that is cost cutting and that's why they've been making so many cuts some of them have been more quiet even like there have been a lot of cases of like them not backfilling roles or them asking people to take buyouts and that's been a little bit less like a little bit more under the radar too and also cutting down on travel expenses a lot of those things that companies do and it's like hey we're in belt tightening mode so yes within xbox it's definitely gone to lean times for those folks

super profitable get those profits up and a large part of that is cost cutting and that's why they've been making so many cuts some of them have been more quiet even like there have been a lot of cases of like them not backfilling roles or them asking people to take buyouts and that's been a little bit less like a little bit more under the radar too and also cutting down on travel expenses a lot of those things that companies do and it's like hey we're in belt tightening mode so yes within xbox it's definitely gone to lean times for those folks

super profitable get those profits up and a large part of that is cost cutting and that's why they've been making so many cuts some of them have been more quiet even like there have been a lot of cases of like them not backfilling roles or them asking people to take buyouts and that's been a little bit less like a little bit more under the radar too and also cutting down on travel expenses a lot of those things that companies do and it's like hey we're in belt tightening mode so yes within xbox it's definitely gone to lean times for those folks

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It's not something that people can ever really solve. It's something that's an ongoing conversation, especially in these male-dominated industries. And the video game industry is still mostly men. I think that the most recent stat I saw at Activision Blizzard was they had something like 26 or 27% people identify as women or non-binary. And so there's always going to be something.

It's not something that people can ever really solve. It's something that's an ongoing conversation, especially in these male-dominated industries. And the video game industry is still mostly men. I think that the most recent stat I saw at Activision Blizzard was they had something like 26 or 27% people identify as women or non-binary. And so there's always going to be something.

It's not something that people can ever really solve. It's something that's an ongoing conversation, especially in these male-dominated industries. And the video game industry is still mostly men. I think that the most recent stat I saw at Activision Blizzard was they had something like 26 or 27% people identify as women or non-binary. And so there's always going to be something.

I think for a lot of people, the bigger issue at Blizzard was not so much that there was harassment or discrimination because those things... are going to happen at any company of thousands of people, the bigger issue for a lot of people was that HR didn't really do much about it. Or like that people didn't seem to be fired or punished when they were accused of that sort of thing.

I think for a lot of people, the bigger issue at Blizzard was not so much that there was harassment or discrimination because those things... are going to happen at any company of thousands of people, the bigger issue for a lot of people was that HR didn't really do much about it. Or like that people didn't seem to be fired or punished when they were accused of that sort of thing.

I think for a lot of people, the bigger issue at Blizzard was not so much that there was harassment or discrimination because those things... are going to happen at any company of thousands of people, the bigger issue for a lot of people was that HR didn't really do much about it. Or like that people didn't seem to be fired or punished when they were accused of that sort of thing.

Or that people would complain about not being paid equitably and just be told that their problems weren't a big deal or like that it wasn't true, gaslit or told they were making it up or whatever it was. There were a lot of kind of these systemic issues that I think Blizzard had a really poor infrastructure for dealing with. And that, I don't know if it's something that they fixed.

Or that people would complain about not being paid equitably and just be told that their problems weren't a big deal or like that it wasn't true, gaslit or told they were making it up or whatever it was. There were a lot of kind of these systemic issues that I think Blizzard had a really poor infrastructure for dealing with. And that, I don't know if it's something that they fixed.

Or that people would complain about not being paid equitably and just be told that their problems weren't a big deal or like that it wasn't true, gaslit or told they were making it up or whatever it was. There were a lot of kind of these systemic issues that I think Blizzard had a really poor infrastructure for dealing with. And that, I don't know if it's something that they fixed.

It's certainly something that has been talked about a lot more. It's certainly something that they've said that they have people coming in to fix, but it's the type of thing where it's difficult to know until there's another critical mass of people all talking about something.

It's certainly something that has been talked about a lot more. It's certainly something that they've said that they have people coming in to fix, but it's the type of thing where it's difficult to know until there's another critical mass of people all talking about something.

It's certainly something that has been talked about a lot more. It's certainly something that they've said that they have people coming in to fix, but it's the type of thing where it's difficult to know until there's another critical mass of people all talking about something.

Even with the Blizzard, like the lawsuit, and I get into this a lot in the book, the lawsuit, it had some problems for sure. It was pretty sloppy. It was misleading in a lot of places. You can write anything in a lawsuit complaint.