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Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick gave his cell phone number to all of his 10,000 employees amid the coronavirus crisis
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Not if he or his executive assistant didn't put it in there no. Filling out personal contact fields in Outlook is entirely optional.
That info typically goes to email addresses or phone numbers managed by assistants, if they even list anything at all.
If it's a work cell, wouldn't everyone in the company be able to contact him anyway? I can view everyone's work phone numbers in our company address book. This seems a bit like a PR move.
Oh, I didn't realize It could be that with the CEO. Seems strange because I know my VP's numbers are legit, but I guess every company is different.
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Not to mention if you send out an email with the wrong signature to a client... they might think we are more than just business partners lol.
It is? OK. I remember being able to find _everyone_, even the CEO, of a Fortune 500 company I used to work for. Maybe different company policies, I guess.
Nice gesture and all, but this seems like a highly inefficient way to handle 10,000 employees with concerns.
I'm sure this is a cell number specifically for this purpose. Also, while I expect him to get calls from more senior people I don't expect a lot of calls coming from junior level. I expect the lower level folks would be more comfortable reaching out to HR than calling the CEO.
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Is it actually his phone number or more like emailing Jeff Bezos? Jeff Bezos gives out his email address but he doesn't actually respond to it, he has people that do that.
To be clear, you usually provide a non work number that your manager, HR or Senior Management can reach you on, in case of emergencies. But there are usually permissions as to who can view personal info within the company. I can't see my CEOs cellphone number cos... i have zero reason to hit up his cell lol
I'm going to guess that the flood of texts will actually be handled by an HR intern who has the account linked to their laptop.
We're sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service...
Oh man. I mean, it's a nice gesture but... yeah. I remember the old CEO of my workplace (the world's fifth largest telecom company or so) had an open mobile number so people could call him directly.
It's a PR stunt regardless because the vast majority of employees are going to be terrified at the notion of personally calling the literal CEO of the company to ask for basically anything.
PR stunt, because unless you yourself are an exec, you wouldn't dare contact the CEO directly.
It's one of those weird invisible barriers that no one feels comfortable crossing.
It's one of those weird invisible barriers that no one feels comfortable crossing.
This, I could call up "my" CEO if I wanted to.
Bob here knows how the corporate world operates, no one is going to call him lol. That's why you have multiple chains of command at these companies.
Same. Somebody definitely mistakenly put the CEO onto an alert email and that didn't go well at all.
You legit can get a cell phone plan with unlimited texts for $15 a month at tmobile so it's either a burner phone or an assistant
This is not really that weird? Maybe the cell phone number thing specifically, but wanting to appear available to all employees (whether de facto true or not) via slack, zoom, popping by the office, 'getting lunch', etc is a typical CEO maneuver. It is internal pr as many have said. Leadership accessibility is not meaningful really though unless people feel like they can actually access it without repurcussion and that they feel that meaningful change could come from it, which are both huge caveats.
"Gimme a call if you want to get fired" seriously who is gonna have the guts to call the CEOs cellphone and not expect to get fired?
if you are an actvision employee, please call him and ask him when the new tony hawk gaming is coming
Work at a BIG4 accounting firm so (200K+ employees world wide). I have access to the phone number of the global CEO.
Doubt anyone is calling him though, nor do I expect people to call Bobby Kotick.
Honestly, though if you need to contact CEO directly there something really wrong at your org (unless it's a smaller company).
Doubt anyone is calling him though, nor do I expect people to call Bobby Kotick.
Honestly, though if you need to contact CEO directly there something really wrong at your org (unless it's a smaller company).
