Riot Employees walk out on Sexist Culture Favorite 

Over 150 Riot Games Employees walked out of the League of Legends office in Los Angeles in order to protest against Riot Games stance on forced arbitration. They stood out in front of the company's parking lot holding picket signs and gave speeches. The employees asked for forced arbitration to be ended for all past, current, and future Riot employees which includes contractors and in current litigation. Jocelyn Monahan a social listening strategist at Riot told her fellow employees through a megaphone, "asking to feel safe does not make you entitled." Others around the world have been showing their support with the #riotwalkout hashtag trending.

In the months since uncovering endemic sexism at Riot Games, five current or former employees sued the company, in part, for violating California’s Equal Pay Act. Afterwards, Riot filed a motion to force two of those current employees into arbitration, an extralegal forum where a suit does not go in front of a jury. Recently, 20,000 Google employees walked out to end forced arbitration; months later, Google announced it would comply, but only for harassment cases. Last week, Riot announced it would now allow incoming employees to opt out of forced arbitration for harassment suits and would consider extending that to current employees “as soon as current litigation is resolved.”