Ubisoft Entertainment SA, one of the world’s largest video-game publishers, placed two executives and several other employees on administrative leave as part of a corporate investigation into misconduct allegations made public over the last week, according to people familiar with the situation.
The two high-ranking employees under scrutiny are Tommy François and Maxime Béland, both vice presidents in the group overseeing development of Ubisoft’s games worldwide, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing personnel issues. Each man faced at least three claims of misconduct among a flurry of Twitter posts from named and anonymous accusers.
Neither François nor Béland responded to requests for comment. Stephanie Magnier, a spokeswoman for Ubisoft, wrote in an email: “These are under investigation, so we are not commenting further at this time.”
The Half Elf wrote on Jun 26, 2020, 23:31:Depends on what's in his ethics clause.ShakaUVM wrote on Jun 26, 2020, 21:45:ColoradoHoudini wrote on Jun 26, 2020, 19:08:
I see a lot of buzzwords, virtue signaling and feel good talk.. but what happened and what exactly are they going to do about it?
One of their employees pretended to be single and dated several women.
But is that misconduct, or just a guy being an asshole?