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“Chiche”: Ubisoft employees respond to management’s social promises

After the interview given by Xavier Poix, director of Ubisoft France studios, to Tech&Co, the group’s elected officials reacted to the comments of those responsible. They listen to them and ask them to fulfill the announced promises.

At Ubisoft, the mood is quite somber. The company comes out of three days of strike in Paris, Montpellier, Annecy and Bordeaux. “It is still more than 25% of the French workforce and 1,000 people,” we congratulate Tech&Co on behalf of Solidaire Informatique, which represents Ubisoft employees.

The day after the interview given by Xavier Poix, head of Ubisoft Studios France, Southern Europe and China, to the Multijoueurs program, the promises made by the company through its director provoked reactions. Sometimes jumping. “There are several things that have made many of us goosebumps,” explains one elected official. “We would have preferred them to talk to employees rather than the press, but at least they are talking.”

“We will take them at their word”

“Co-construction is shit. At Ubisoft we don’t know how to co-build. Everything comes from above, from Yves (Guillemot, CEO of the group, editor’s note) and his subordinates, and then people have to apply,” he laments. However, employees say they are “willing to take Ubisoft’s word and make it come true. outside.”

He also wants the company to honor its commitments and take its time in negotiations. “We also call them ‘poor’, because that is not really what is happening,” we lament at Solidaire Informatique, in reference to the first working meetings on the social situation, just two weeks ago, to agree on the calendar. “A schedule that extends to the end of December doesn’t really take away from our time. We have additional work and other negotiations going on.”

Four CSE meetings, salaries and other topics are on the program for next week alone. “We have requested documents that we do not yet have. We have questioned the schedule, which does not suit them. They want to finish before the end of December at all costs, otherwise they threaten us with a unilateral decision by the employer on the social issue,” laments Solidaire Informatique. , which explains that Ubisoft would have a deadline of April 1 for everything to be ready. “It’s unrealistic and rushed,” he says.

“Yves Guillemot was still telling us in his open letter sent internally that social dialogue was of good quality at this time at Ubisoft, but 10 days later,” smiles an elected official. “He assures that HR, Xavier Poix and the studio directors are committed to maintaining a quality dialogue, since that is not the case…”

A ship without a captain

According to the unions, Ubisoft has not yet heard of the first social unrest at the beginning of the year and they regret the lack of reaction from its managers. “We are on a ship without a captain. There is a real discomfort in the studies that they don’t seem to really understand. The justification of going back face to face three days a week for creative reasons made us smile.

“We don’t even have a creative director for the company since the departure of Igor Manceau. Ubisoft’s concern is not creativity, it is the publishers and publications that dictate what we should put in the games, necessarily late compared to the market , because they study things already published,” they tell us. “We have to create a trend and depend less on agreements of all kinds to have help, funds and make money in the short term. This is also the concern in the studios. We want to create and talk about games.”

If the strike movement is over for the moment, “it is not over yet,” we assure the elected officials. Negotiations will continue and they hope they go as well as their leaders promised. Renewing social dialogue, talking to employees, calming employees’ anger and feelings, these are the priorities of elected officials. “The ball is in your court,” we say mischievously.

Author: Melinda Davan-Soulas
Source: BFM TV

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