Ubisoft Worker Who Was Suspended For Criticising the Company Has Now Been Fired

The Ubisoft worker who took to social media final week to say he had been positioned on a 3-day suspension after feedback criticising the corporate has now stated he has been terminated by Ubisoft.

David Michaud-Cromp, who has labored at Ubisoft for greater than 13 years, took to social media final week to announce that his suspension was associated to “public comments” that he “expressed regarding the company’s return-to-office policy, and based on an alleged breach of the duty of loyalty.”

Insider Gaming gave Ubisoft the chance to touch upon our protection of Michaud-Cromp’s suspension, however didn’t, solely acknowledging that the chance was given.

However, following our protection, screenshots of Michaud-Cromp’s feedback in Ubisoft’s inside communication channel, Agora, have been despatched to Insider Gaming, offering higher readability on why the suspension and, now, the termination might have occurred.

Michaud-Cromp criticised Ubisoft’s RTO insurance policies, the closing down of studios, and investing in GaaS that “keeps running away to bite us in the bollocks,” he stated. Michaud-Cromp additionally hit again on the choice to have Vantage Studios run by now co-CEO Charlie Guillemot, who’s the son of Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot, citing that he’s just about solely obtained Unagi video games on his resume.

In his message, he continued to say that it’s the workers who pay the worth for successive unhealthy choices taken by executives, who “keep swimming in millions of dollars”. He concluded that he agrees prices needs to be trimmed, however that it wants to begin on the high, as a result of nothing will change in any other case.

Frankly, I believe everybody at Ubisoft, each internally and externally, is on board with this message, however maybe it was a bit of too clear.

According to Michaud-Cromp, Ubisoft has concluded that Michaud-Cromp can not work on the firm and has subsequently determined to terminate his place.

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