Industry and Video game layoff thread |OT| Any future layoff info please place in here.
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Yeap I expect most lay offs are related to Activation Blizzard.
They had at early 2023 over 17k employees.
One of the biggest fear of the employees in any merge is layoffs.
It always happens so the faster better because you remove the insecurity from the employees that will stay.
It is impossible to not have layoffs after a merger.
Well, I assume that when you are a publisher and developer and acquire publishers and developers there's a lot of redundant work. Two people doing exactly the same in marketing, sales, PR, CM, CS, QA, HR plus in the dev part in engine and tools areas.
For being more productive you merge and coordinate the same teams under a global structure following the same vision, workflow and strategy. But there's redundant fat to cut, so they fire some people.
In addition to this, if the gaming division has been generating loses during a couple decades even after investing dozens of billions in acquisitions I think it's normal that at some point they'll axe it firing underperforming people to reduce costs and replacing them for more promising staff.
I think it's what they should do with Phil Spencer, Aaron Greenberg, Matt Booty and Sarah Bond: they should be fired or at least moved away from the gaming division and replace them with someone very capable and successful in their positions. As they did replacing Matt Booty with Turn 10's Alan Hartman.
For being more productive you merge and coordinate the same teams under a global structure following the same vision, workflow and strategy. But there's redundant fat to cut, so they fire some people.
In addition to this, if the gaming division has been generating loses during a couple decades even after investing dozens of billions in acquisitions I think it's normal that at some point they'll axe it firing underperforming people to reduce costs and replacing them for more promising staff.
I think it's what they should do with Phil Spencer, Aaron Greenberg, Matt Booty and Sarah Bond: they should be fired or at least moved away from the gaming division and replace them with someone very capable and successful in their positions. As they did replacing Matt Booty with Turn 10's Alan Hartman.
Blizzard was already a shell of its former self, this just shows its officially dead.
This story will get more media attention than the recent Bungie layoffs, for sure... Right?
There must be a big shift around the corner because financial reports are out on the 30th of January IIRC.
shit forgot about that. Wonder if Multiplatform announcements will happen soon then
Mike Ibarra let go after successfully completing his mission of eliminating internal opposition to the acquisition at Blizzard.
If it were a logical thing they would have cut the failing parts (existing xbox staff, whoever worked on their latest releases) and gave the leadership to what makes the most money (someone from ABK).
But no, they kept Phil and his team.
But no, they kept Phil and his team.
Wouldn't be surprised if it happens next week. They'd probably want that stuff out before all that IR stuff goes out
