Activision Blizzard harassment and discrimination cases 2022

In 2022, Activision Blizzard's Investigations Unit substantiated 29 total reported concerns of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation across all business units representing conduct by employees. Including contingent workers and non-employees like testers or eSports players, the total of substantiated cases during the measured period came to 36 cases. Additionally, there were 116 investigated cases of harassment or discrimination by employees and contingent workers.

Harassment, discrimination, and retaliation concerns at Activision Blizzard (ABK) in 2022, by business unit

Characteristic	Activision Blizzard Corporate	Activision Publishing	Blizzard Entertainment	King	2022 TOTAL
Number of Company Employees¹	1,118	6,615	5,418	2,394	15,545
Number of Contingent Workers²	540	2,695	1,861	185	5,281
TOTAL Number of Employees and Contingent Workers³	1,658	9,310	7,279	2,579	20,826
Substantiated Cases by Employee	1	15	13	0	29
Substantiated Cases by Contingent Worker	0	2	0	0	2
TOTAL Substantiated Cases⁴	1	17	13	0	31
Substantiations per 100 Employees and Contingent Workers	0.06	0.18	0.18	0	0.15
Investigated Cases by Employee	12	38	57	7	114
Investigated Cases by Contingent Worker	0	2	0	0	2
TOTAL Investigated Cases⁵	12	40	57	7	116
Investigations per 100 Employees and Contingent Workers	0.72	0.43	0.78	0.27	0.56
Investigations Substantiation Rate	8.3%	43%	23%	0%	27%
% Anonymous	14%	7%	3%	0%	5%

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Release date

May 2023

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United States

Survey time period

2022

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reported concerns substantiated by ABK's Investigations Unit; excluding non-employees like testers or eSports players

Supplementary notes

According to ABK: "The data included in this section represents our best estimates based on data in our systems as of March 31, 2023. Please refer to the “Notes Regarding our Methodology” at the end of this report for more information.

¹In order to provide a full view of our employee population, this number reflects the aggregate number of employees we employed during the year, rather than the number of employees employed as of year-end.
²Contingent workers represent employees of third parties, such as staffing agency employees. In an effort to provide complete information about our workplace, we have included contingent workers in our total employee population for purposes of calculating the rate of substantiated and investigated cases per 100 employees.
³As indicated above, data related to non-employees (e.g., certain vendors, eSports players and testers) is not included in the table. During 2022, we had seven investigated cases and five substantiated cases involving non-employees.
⁴Matters are considered substantiated to the extent any of the investigated concerns were substantiated; substantiated does not mean a violation of law.
⁵Represents investigated cases that were closed during the period specified.

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