A #MeToo reckoning has arrived at Ubisoft Montreal. Can the company change?

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A MeToo reckoning has arrived at Ubisoft Montreal. Can the company change?

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“It was a bit like Ubisoft Montreal against Ubisoft Paris then,” the former employee remembers. “The Montreal studio would finish a big job and some big head from France would come in and stick his nose in. Yannis pushed back, but at the same time he wasn’t afraid to say he didn’t understand something. He’s hyper-intelligent and competent, and I don’t think he personally did anything untoward.

Meanwhile, using Quebec taxpayer dollars to subsidize a foreign multinational that had over $2.8 billion in sales in 2018–2019 similarly remains a thorn in much of Quebec, Inc.’s side. “You could cut the subsidies tomorrow and Ubisoft wouldn’t go anywhere,” Coveo CEO Louis Têtu toldearlier this year. “Even at full price, it’s still less costly to hire a developer in Montreal than in Silicon Valley or New York.

 

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You mean someone is accused of a crime, denied due process and presumption of innocence and punished?

According to the article all that happened was some cheesy pickup lines and a married guy may have cheated on his wife. If this is the metoo culture the article is referencing then what is the exact problem? If the article left out the real allegations, then fix the article!

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