Company electronic arts announced that as part of the upcoming restructuring lay off 6% of employees. It’s estimated more than 700 people. “We are trying to focus more on a broad portfolio and are moving away from projects that do not contribute to our strategy,” the company’s CEO writes on the EA website. Andrew Wilson.
“This is the hardest part. [restrukturalizace] and we act with the utmost care and respect,” he continues, “where possible, we provide opportunities for colleagues to move on to other projects. If this is not possible, we provide severance pay and other benefits such as medical care and job transition services.”
EA recently laid off about 200 testers working on Apex Legends, saying it wants to decentralize the testing process. The cancellation of the project, codenamed Titanfall Legends, from the worlds of Titanfall and Apex Legends, whose names it combines, was also supposed to occur.
But it’s not the only gaming or tech company that is downsizing. Almost 300 people were discharged at the beginning of the year. Unityseveral dozen people had to leave riot game And Microsoft he even said goodbye to 10,000 employees.
Source : Zing
