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posted by malloc at 03:49 pm on 2008-11-11 |
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RUMOR: Ubisoft/Eidos Montreal involved in employee salary fixing scandal and spying
A former mid-level manager (of whom we do not previously know) has got in touch with us to potentially expose what is a very disturbing alleged occurrence in the games industry. On the condition of anonymity, he has revealed attempts of Montreal gaming studios to fix salaries of employees and rampant spying by Ubisoft Montreal on all emails to and from its competitors. The source (he was responsible for setting up the e-mail spying) forwarded us along an email between former director of HR at Eidos Montreal (Tremblay) to the Vice President of HR at Ubisoft Montreal (Baillet). In the email, Eidos note there is no benefit of raising salaries and hope the two companies do not so for competitive reasons and EA must be convinced to do the same.
Click the above image to see a copy of the alleged e-mail proof in full.
All of this is indicated to be part of a larger problem in which Ubisoft Montreal spies on all emails to and from its competitors. All email is copied in the background to a special mailbox for executives to read (at least back in 2007) and essentially all Ubisoft employees have no privacy.
This 'leak' must be strictly treated as a rumor as we can not guarantee the validity of his claims or even the e-mail. It could just be an angry and sour ex-employee. The source has told us that he left the gaming industry back in 2007 as he got a 'better' job.
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