{"id":55239,"date":"2023-11-07T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/07\/ubisoft-lays-off-over-a-hundred-employees\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T21:00:39","slug":"ubisoft-lays-off-over-a-hundred-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/07\/ubisoft-lays-off-over-a-hundred-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Lays Off Over A Hundred Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div property=\"schema:text\">\n<p>At present, Ubisoft is the most recent developer to affix 2023&#8217;s wave of layoffs. Based on <em>IGN<\/em>, the corporate laid off a complete of 124 workers. 98 of them have been based mostly in Canada, which <em>IGN<\/em> calculates as roughly 2% of the corporate&#8217;s\u00a0Canadian workforce. The cuts included administrative and IT staff, a few of whom have been employed on the Hybride VFX studio, an organization that has labored on reveals like <em>Ahsoka<\/em> and <em>The Mandalorian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HYBRIDE OFFICIAL 2023 DEMO REEL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7qPqAzd760?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These usually are not selections taken evenly and we&#8217;re offering complete help for our colleagues who might be leaving Ubisoft throughout this transition,&#8221; the corporate advised each <em>IGN <\/em>and <em>Kotaku<\/em>.\u00a0&#8220;We additionally wish to share our utmost gratitude and respect for his or her many contributions to the corporate. This restructuring doesn&#8217;t have an effect on our manufacturing groups.&#8221; One other quote obtained by Kotaku claims that the layoffs are to permit Ubisoft to &#8220;to optimize its sources to be extra sustainable in the long run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This information comes after a yr of a number of large Ubisoft releases, together with Murderer&#8217;s Creed Mirage, The Crew: Motorfest, and Simply Dance 2024, however that is regardless of the truth that they canceled a number of video games this yr and delayed Cranium and Bones&#8230; once more.\u00a0Unrest on the firm has been ongoing as effectively: again in September, <em>IGN<\/em> reported widespread frustration after workers have been all of the sudden referred to as to return to in-person working situations.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft now joins Bungie, Media Molecule, Telltale Video games, Team17, Epic Video games, Naughty Canine,\u00a0Microsoft, and extra on the sadly lengthy listing of corporations which have laid individuals off up to now yr.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Sources: IGN, Kotaku<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2023\/11\/07\/ubisoft-lays-off-over-a-hundred-employees\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] At present, Ubisoft is the most recent developer to affix 2023&#8217;s wave of layoffs. Based on IGN, the corporate laid off a complete of 124 workers. 98 of them have been based mostly in Canada, which IGN calculates as roughly 2% of the corporate&#8217;s\u00a0Canadian workforce. 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