After months of striking and general workplace malaise, Activision-Blizzard will be converting all of their contract Quality Assurance (QA) workers into full-time employees.
After months of striking and general workplace malaise, Activision-Blizzard will be converting all of their contract Quality Assurance workers into full-time employees. Those eligible for the promotion will receive benefits and a pay raise starting at $20 an hour.
The letter also mentions Activision-Blizzard’s desire to hire external support studios during particularly difficult periods of development. Blizzard head Mike Ybarra, who gained the position after the departure of Jen Oneal and the forced removal of J. Allen Brack, also sent a letter to staff. Ybarra mentions various meetings with QA testers over the past six months, and how they educated him in how vital QA is in making Blizzard “the best player-focused game studio.”
Both emails fail to mention Raven Software, a QA studio within the Activision-Blizzard family who have