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Blizzard Starts Drive To Recruit More Women and Ethnic Minorities (bbc.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the making-a-change dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The company behind games like World of Warcraft and Overwatch has started a drive to recruit more women and ethnic minorities. The information is in a leaked internal email from Blizzard's CEO, seen by the website Kotako. It claims 21 percent of Blizzard's employees are women, and although that's similar to the rest of the gaming industry, it says it wants to do better. The company claims the initiative will focus on finding more female employees and getting them to stay on longer. At the moment women are leaving at a higher rate than men but it says it'll fall short of setting "quotas."

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  1. I know a girl that used to work for Blizzard by TheCastro1689 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    She won't even play their games and hates them a shit load. They probably have other issues than hiring.

  2. A questionable benefit for them by Kohath · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The games business is notorious for terrible working conditions, terrible management, and a huge percentage of coworkers who are just plain jerks.

    Bad management means you have low job security and a high chance your work will end up getting thrown away when the project is cancelled.

    And whether your coworkers are jerks because they're misogynistic, or because they're trolls, or because they're SJWs, or because they're divas, or because they're just social misfits, it still sucks dealing with jerks all the time.

    On the other hand, it's a growing business, so even a bad job might lead to a good opportunity eventually.

  3. Question by HanzoSpam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can anyone name a benefit to diversity that's anything close to compensation for all the bullshit we've had to endure achieving it?

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    Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
  4. Except that's a lie by Kartu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that's a lie, as Australians have found out, on the opposite, using blind recruitment reduces chances of women and minorities:

    Blind recruitment trial to boost gender equality making things worse, study reveals
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...