Take-Two boss: "we will not tolerate bad behaviour of any kind"

03 Aug 2021PCGamesN

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has explained that the publisher won't "tolerate harassment or discrimination or bad behaviour of any kind" in response to shareholder questions during the company's first-quarter earnings call. In light of the recent lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, investors raised questions over how Take-Two Interactive deals with issues of diversity and harassment.

"The culture of the company is well known, and well known internally, and reasonably well known externally," Zelnick says. "All that said, we can always do better, and I think we're known to be people who always want to be doing better, and never want to rest on our laurels".

Zelnick goes on to say that he doesn't think fostering an appropriate environment is "a single set of actions or reflects one day in a news cycle". Instead, it's a constant process of introspection and improvement. "There are always ways that we in the industry can do better," he says. "We'll listen to our colleagues, and we'll work on this area over time. But I want to be very specific because you asked the question about what we do around here and what we've always done. The first is, and I'll say it in as black and white a way as I can, we will not tolerate harassment or discrimination or bad behaviour of any kind. We never have."

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