Four Fired Over Game Studio Racism Allegations
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Four of the staffers at the centre of some serious racism allegations at San Francisco developer KIXEYE have been fired, studio boss Will Harbin has announced. https://kotaku.com/serious-racism-allegations-levelled-at-video-game-devel-5948422 Harbin told Kotaku yesterday that he was taking ” substantial corrective action”, which he’s elaborated on today, revealing that “the manager of the team in question” and “three other employees” have been terminated after they’d found to have “violated company standards”.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5948844","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); He goes on to say that these “few bad apples weren’t living up to the standards that the rest of us have set for our company”, and that he has “taken steps to provide harassment training to the other members of the team, given the poor example set by their manager”. In addition to this and the recent implementation of a “sensitivity training program”, Harbin also says that KIXEYE is in the process of securing an “outside, independent investigation of the allegations made by the contractor to ensure we have all the facts and take whatever continued, appropriate action is necessary to prevent this kind of behavior from occurring again.” You can read the complete statement below. I’d like to elaborate on the statement I made yesterday. The facts: in a blog post, a former contractor who was here this Summer made allegations of racial discrimination against KIXEYE. I first learned of this at
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