Ubisoft fine print reveals small CEO pay bump, a nixed Driver show and more
Assassin's Creed maker's annual report also details the company's aging workforce, an experiment with cardboard game packaging, and its AI guardrails.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is getting his first official pay raise since 2019—albeit a tiny one. And some of his future pay will be tied to whether employees feel respected at work, following a decline in that sentiment in the past year.
Those are just some of the details Game File has learned about the publisher of Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six and Skull & Bones, after combing through the company’s recent 356-page annual report.
The lengthy document includes a range of details—from the company’s policies around generative AI, to more trivial facts, such as the number of teenagers it employs among its 19,000 workers (14 teens, down from 17 the year before).
A close look at Ubisoft’s filing reveals that the company is experimenting with more environmentally friendly cardboard packaging for its games.
It also indicates, as subsequently confirmed to Game File by Ubisoft, that the company’s live action series based on the Driver video game frachise is on the scrap heap (or some other car metaphor, if you prefer… parked? Recalled? Ran out of gas? Was hoisted onto cinder blocks and had its wheels taken off?).
But first, Yves Guillemot’s pay…
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