Activision Blizzard's longtime CEO Bobby Kotick is facing mounting pressure from employees to step down amid the company's ongoing sexual harassment scandal.
More than 800 Activision Blizzard workers so far have signed a petition calling for Kotick's resignation. The petition, released on Thursday by a group of employees, says they"no longer have confidence" in Kotick's leadership.
That walkout, the company's second in less than six months, came in response to a Wall Street Journal investigation indicating the CEO was aware of the company's harassment and discrimination issues for several years. The report cited internal company documents and people familiar with the matter. Kotick said in a statement to employees that the Journal story"paints an inaccurate and misleading view of our company, of me personally, and my leadership.
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