Today, Ubisoft is the newest developer to hitch 2023’s wave of layoffs. According to IGN, the corporate laid off a complete of 124 workers. 98 of them had been based mostly in Canada, which IGN calculates as roughly 2% of the corporate’s Canadian workforce. The cuts included administrative and IT employees, a few of whom had been employed on the Hybride VFX studio, an organization that has labored on reveals like Ahsoka and The Mandalorian.
“These are not decisions taken lightly and we are providing comprehensive support for our colleagues who will be leaving Ubisoft during this transition,” the corporate informed each IGN and Kotaku. “We also want to share our utmost gratitude and respect for their many contributions to the company. This restructuring does not affect our production teams.” Another quote obtained by Kotaku claims that the layoffs are to permit Ubisoft to “to optimize its resources to be more sustainable in the long term.”
This information comes after a yr of a number of huge Ubisoft releases, together with Assassin’s Creed Mirage, The Crew: Motorfest, and Just Dance 2024, however that is despite the truth that they canceled a number of video games this yr and delayed Skull and Bones… once more. Unrest on the firm has been ongoing as nicely: again in September, IGN reported widespread frustration after workers had been out of the blue referred to as to return to in-person working situations.
Ubisoft now joins Bungie, Media Molecule, Telltale Games, Team17, Epic Games, Naughty Dog, Microsoft, and extra on the sadly lengthy listing of firms which have laid individuals off previously yr.
[Sources: IGN, Kotaku]
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