Anne Evans, who previously was the vice president of human resources at Unity Technologies, sued the company for sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

The lawsuit can be read here, and in it, we found that Evans named the sexual harassment’s source none other than John Riccitiello, the CEO of Unity Technologies (he previously was the CEO of Electronic Arts). Evans claims that Unity is a „highly sexualized” workplace, where the executives openly talk about their sexual conquests, and she also says that Riccitiello solicited her for sex multiple times. (He hasn’t responded to these claims yet.)

„Unity intends to vigorously defend against the false allegations asserted by Anne Evans. Following a third-party investigation that surfaced facts that Evans engaged in serious misconduct and established multiple instances in which she demonstrated a gross lapse in judgment, Unity terminated her employment. This was an undesirable outcome for Evans, and we had been working with her on the details of her departure when she filed a public lawsuit that includes false and damaging claims against the company, our CEO and a number of our employees. Before and throughout the investigation, Evans had multiple opportunities to share her concerns about her experiences at the company through confidential and objective mechanisms, yet never did. We take these issues seriously at Unity, just as we did when we learned about concerns involving Evans. We do not tolerate harassment, and we have policies in place to address relationships in the workplace,” Unity’s statement to the lawsuit, filed on June 5, says.

Evans started as a senior director of recruiting at the company in 2015, then got promoted in 2017. She alleges that Riccitiello began making inappropriate sexual remarks towards her, as well as propositioning for sex twice (once in San Francisco, once in Paris.) In a separate matter, Evans had a dispute with another Unity employee, which led to her termination earlier this year. She claims it was wrongful, and it led to the lawsuit.

What timing: why do it just before E3?

Source: VentureBeat