It's become increasingly clear to me that ABK's trajectory/long-term plan for their QA teams - including Blizzard, where this is happening as well - is to slowly worsen conditions for FTE QA until they voluntarily quit; and rather than backfill, replace those workers with contract outsourcing.

AAabetterabk.bsky.socialDec 18, 2023 6:11pm

On November 30th, Activision QA employees in Minneapolis, Austin, and El Segundo received an email announcing that hybrid work will be ended in January for QA employees. Below is our statement regarding this decision.

And then those contract workers only see maybe a third of their billable rate.