Activision Blizzard accused of deadnaming transgender employees
Activision Blizzard over alleged sexual harassment, a new report claims that the company has been deadnaming transgender quality assurance (QA) staff.The report, from Kotaku, states that the company will “almost always default to legal names,” a QA tester at a contract QA studio claimed. Apparently employees not in leadership roles can change their display name in Slack, but to change a name in another program requires the intervention of either HR or a higher-up.These programs can also accidentally reset workers names.