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Call of Duty Devs Walkout After Surprise Layoffs at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software
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wowhead.comActivision Blizzard was beset by layoffs, outrage, and a slight silver lining over this past weekend, after about a dozen temporary employees from Call of Duty development studio Raven Software were surprised to find that their contracts would not be extended into the new year.
Blindsided by the lack of warning and their new termination date of January 28th rapidly approaching, this sparked immediate outrage between fellow employees, who organized a walkout protest of some 60 employees
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Activision Blizzard workers stage walkout over Call of Duty studio layoffs engadget.com /2 years ago
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A GoFundMe has been created to support employees participating in the latest work stoppage at Activision Blizzard. This latest walkout comes after the company announced a round of layoffs in the QA department of one of its subsidiaries, Raven Software, right before the holiday season. Though initially contained to the Wisconsin-based studio, the walkout spread to QA departments in Texas and Minnesota with many other employees not in QA departments joining in solidarity.
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