Reggie Fils-Aimé Discusses Workplace Abuse, Delayed Adoption Of Online Play At Nintendo

thegamer.com:

The former President and Chief Operating Officer at Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aimé recently gave his thoughts on the reports of workplace abuse at Nintendo, calling the allegations “troubling” and describing how “I do believe it is the role of company leadership to set a culture in the organization and to set the tone." The former executive also explained why Nintendo lagged so far behind Sony and Microsoft when it came to the adoption of online play.

The news comes from a whole series of interviews held in advance of the upcoming book by Fils-Aimé, Disrupting the Game. These covered several different topics including unionization, contract work, labor relations, and of course the delayed adoption of online play at Nintendo.

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Addressing the subject of workplace abuse at Nintendo, the former executive said that “I made it a priority to have a culture within the organization that was welcoming, that promoted all the workers that we had. And so, these reports are really troubling.” Fils-Aimé added that “what I would say today is that every organization needs to look hard at its employment practices" and to “make sure that they are being progressive, that they are being welcoming to all their employees whether they're full time or not and to make sure that they've got the policies and principles in place to have a welcoming work environment. And to make sure that there are no systemic issues going on."

Fils-Aimé described how "you can't be directly involved in every single issue," but noted that “having openness and having every employee in the organization that can come to you and raise an issue, that's certainly the culture that I advocated while I was at