Santa Monica, CA – March 5, 2015 – Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) has been named to Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For® list in 2015, marking its first-ever placement on the prestigious list.
Activision Blizzard’s rich culture, where fun, creativity and operational excellence are celebrated, has fostered great pride among its employees. The results of the Great Place to Work® Trust Index© survey found that Activision Blizzard ranked highly with its employees in the great pride, great credibility, and great camaraderie categories. The vast majority of Activision Blizzard employees cited the friendly atmosphere where people can be themselves and the commitment to give extra to get the job done as highlights of the employee culture
“We have always considered Activision Blizzard to be one of the greatest places to work,” said Bobby Kotick, Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard. “To be recognized for it by others is gratifying and rewarding but being acknowledged as a great place to work by our own people means more to me than just about anything. They are the reason we are being recognized today.”
Activision Blizzard’s rich history includes combining the most talented developers and publishers in the entertainment industry, Activision Publishing and Blizzard Entertainment, to create today’s largest and most profitable western interactive entertainment publishing company that employs over 7,000 people globally. The company’s talented employees have created some of the most popular and beloved entertainment franchises in the world including Call of Duty®, Destiny®, Diablo®, Skylanders®, StarCraft® and World of Warcraft®, which have been played by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
“In our early days, we were selling the office furniture just to make payroll. Today, we’re one of the largest and most successful entertainment companies in the world – and that’s entirely due to the exceptionally talented, inspired, driven, and hard-working people at Activision Blizzard. I couldn’t be prouder of their accomplishments,” added Kotick.
Activision Blizzard continues to grow and is currently hiring for more than 1,150 positions across its global offices. To apply for a position or learn more about why Activision Blizzard is a great place to work, visit www.activisionblizzard.com/careers or the career pages of Activision Publishing at www.activision.com/careers and Blizzard Entertainment at www.jobs.blizzard.com.
Methodology
Fortune partners annually with Great Place to Work® to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America to identify the 100 Best Companies to Work For ®. Two-thirds of a company’s survey score is based on the results of the Trust Index© Employee Survey, which is sent to a random sample of employees from each company. This survey asks questions related to employees’ attitudes about management’s credibility, overall job satisfaction, and camaraderie The other third is based on responses to the Culture Audit©, which includes detailed questionnaires about pay and benefit programs and a series of open-ended questions about hiring practices, methods of internal communication, training, recognition programs and diversity efforts.
