{"id":9763,"date":"2021-08-04T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9763"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:40:08","slug":"blizzard-president-resigns-amid-toxic-workplace-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/blizzard-president-resigns-amid-toxic-workplace-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard President Resigns Amid Toxic Workplace Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>J Allen Barrack will step down as President of Blizzard Entertainment and be replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, who will jointly manage the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news comes after California sued the company over allegedly toxic and sexist workplace culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company denied all allegations and has called for legal action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, employees took to the streets to protest the company&#8217;s culture and the way it responded to the claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also said the new leaders will &#8220;ensure Blizzard is the safest, most welcoming workplace possible for women, and people of any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or background.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-58061231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> on the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Allen Barrack will step down as President of Blizzard Entertainment and be replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, who will jointly manage the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9866,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions\/9866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}