暴雪战网
By Jason Schreier
杰森·施雷尔(Jason Schreier)
Employees at Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Activision Blizzard Inc., began circulating a spreadsheet on Friday to anonymously share salaries and recent pay increases, the latest example of rising tension in the video game industry over wage disparities and executive compensation.
动视暴雪公司(Activision Blizzard Inc.)旗下子公司暴雪娱乐(Blizzard Entertainment)的员工从周五开始分发电子表格，以匿名方式分享薪水和近期加薪，这是视频游戏行业因工资差距和高管薪酬而紧张局势加剧的最新例证。
Blizzard, based in Irvine, California, makes popular games including Diablo and World of Warcraft. In 2019, after an internal survey revealed that more than half of Blizzard workers were unhappy with their compensation, the company told staff it would perform a study to ensure fair pay, according to people familiar with the situation. Blizzard implemented the results of that study last month, which led to an outcry on the company’s internal Slack messaging boards.
总部位于加利福尼亚州欧文的暴雪制作了包括《暗黑破坏神》和《魔兽世界》在内的热门游戏。 知情人士称，在一项内部调查显示，暴雪公司一半以上的员工对其薪酬感到不满之后，2019年，该公司告诉员工它将进行一项研究以确保合理的薪酬。 暴雪上个月实施了该研究的结果，导致该公司内部的Slack消息传递板引起强烈抗议。
One employee then created a spreadsheet and encouraged staff to share their compensation information. The anonymous document, reviewed by Bloomberg News, contains dozens of purported Blizzard salaries and pay bumps. Most of the raises are below 10%, significantly less than Blizzard employees said they expected following the study.
然后，一名员工创建了一个电子表格，并鼓励员工共享其薪酬信息。 彭博新闻社(Bloomberg News)审查了这份匿名文件，其中包含数十项声称的暴雪薪水和加薪幅度。 大多数加薪幅度都低于10％，大大低于暴雪员工在调查后表示的预期。
“Our goal has always been to ensure we compensate our employees fairly and competitively,” Activision Blizzard spokeswoman Jessica Taylor said. “We are constantly reviewing compensation philosophies to better recognize the talent of our highest performers and keep us competitive in the industry, all with the aim of rewarding and investing more in top employees.”
动视暴雪发言人杰西卡·泰勒(Jessica Taylor)说：“我们的目标一直是确保我们公平，有竞争力地补偿员工。” “我们一直在审查薪酬理念，以更好地认可表现最好的人才，并保持我们在行业中的竞争力，所有这些都是为了奖励并向顶级员工投资更多。”
This year, Blizzard top performers received a salary increase that was 20% more than in prior years, and more people got promotions, Taylor added. “Our overall salary investment is consistent with prior years,” she also said.
泰勒补充说，今年，暴雪表现最好的人的薪水比往年增加了20％，并且有更多的人获得晋升。 她还说：“我们的整体薪资投资与往年一致。”
Wage disparity has become a hot-button issue in the $150 billion video game industry as calls for unionization grow. A pro-labor group recently slammed Activision Blizzard for the pay of Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick. His 2019 compensation was worth $40 million at the end of that year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and the package has grown since then as the company’s stock has soared. Last year, the company also paid $15 million in stock awards and sign-on bonus to incoming Chief Financial Officer Dennis Durkin. In the anonymous spreadsheet, one employee listed the CEO’s annual salary, bonus and stock award.
随着工会要求的提高，工资差异已成为1500亿美元视频游戏行业的紧迫问题。 一个支持劳工的组织最近抨击动视暴雪 ( Activision Blizzard)，要求其支付首席执行官Bobby Kotick的薪水。 根据彭博社汇编的数据，他当年年底的2019年薪酬价值4000万美元，此后随着公司股票的飙升，这一方案一直在增长。 去年，该公司还向即将上任的首席财务官丹尼斯·德金( Dennis Durkin)支付了1500万美元的股票奖励和签约奖金。 在匿名电子表格中，一名员工列出了首席执行官的年薪，奖金和股票奖励。
In internal messages reviewed by Bloomberg News, Blizzard employees said they were struggling to make ends meet while watching Activision Blizzard revenue grow year after year. Some producers and engineers at Blizzard can make well over $100,000 a year, but others, such as video game testers and customer-service representatives, are often paid minimum wage or close to it.
在彭博新闻社的内部消息中，暴雪的员工表示，他们在努力收支平衡的同时，看着动视暴雪的收入逐年增长。 暴雪的一些制作人和工程师每年的收入可以超过10万美元，而视频游戏测试人员和客户服务代表等其他人通常会获得最低工资或接近最低工资。
Blizzard Entertainment has traditionally remained autonomous from its parent company, but in recent years, Activision’s corporate office has pushed the game-development studio to cut costs. Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go. That extra work did not come with more pay, according to the people familiar with the company, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive private information.
暴雪娱乐公司传统上一直保持其母公司的自主权，但是近年来，动视的公司办公室推动了游戏开发工作室削减成本 。 去年，该公司裁撤了数百个工作岗位，并要求剩余的一些人员承担被解雇人员的责任。 据该公司的知情人士称，这项额外的工作并没有带来更高的报酬，他们要求不透露身份以讨论敏感的私人信息。
One veteran Blizzard employee told Bloomberg News they received a raise of less than 50 cents an hour. They are making less now than they did almost a decade ago because they are working fewer overtime hours than they did back then. Several former Blizzard employees said they only received significant pay increases after leaving for other companies, such as nearby rival Riot Games Inc. in Los Angeles.
暴雪的一位资深员工告诉彭博新闻社，他们每小时的加薪不到50美分。 他们现在的收入比十年前要少，因为他们的加班时间比那时少。 暴雪的几名前雇员表示，他们离开其他公司后，例如附近的竞争对手洛杉矶的Riot Games Inc.，才获得大幅加薪。
In 2018 messages on internal Blizzard communication channels reviewed by Bloomberg News, employees talked about money-saving measures they’ve taken to remain with the company. One employee wrote that they had to skip meals to pay rent and that they used the company’s free coffee as an appetite suppressant. Another said they would only eat oatmeal and bail on team lunches because they couldn’t afford to buy food at the company cafeteria. A third said they and their partner stopped talking about having kids because they knew they wouldn’t be able to afford it. That contrasted with pictures they saw of more senior Blizzard employees enjoying vacations to Disneyland with their families.
在彭博新闻社(Bloomberg News)审阅的暴雪内部沟通渠道的2018年消息中，员工谈论了为留在公司而采取的省钱措施。 一名员工写道，他们不得不不吃饭来支付房租，并且他们使用公司的免费咖啡来抑制食欲。 另一个说，他们只会在团队午餐时吃燕麦粥和保释金，因为他们买不起公司食堂的食物。 三分之一的人说他们和他们的伴侣停止谈论生孩子，因为他们知道自己负担不起。 与此形成鲜明对比的是，他们看到暴雪的更多高级员工与家人一起度假到迪士尼乐园。
— With assistance from Anders Melin.
—在Anders Melin的协助下。