Gaming companies tend to not to be top heavy and massive management issues leading to over hirings like TI did, which is why people in that sector needs to look at their backs even more because there could be a 2x culling. Unity was so bloated that they decided to lay off 1/4 of their workforce.
Not everything is covid, but in general tech companies amping up hiring like crazy for whatever reason has now gone the other way. Last year Meta canned 10,000 employees alone.
That's a good catch so we don't actually know how many employees just the roles.
Yeah, that’s the f-d up part. MS made like $70 nil in profit last year and yet they are cutting 1,800 people immediately.
I never said it was a hive mind. Relax.
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defend this shit
Do you think Walmart only consists of people who sit at the register?
in fairness, this is just the first round of layoffs post-acquisition isn't it?
Yeah, I had to read that part a few times, and it still isn't crystal clear to me if he is using the term "roles" to avoid saying "people", or if it is describing specific jobs. Looking at some press releases, I do lean towards 1,909 individuals, as that also lines up with the 8% number I have seen being tossed around.
Willing to bet that was a small, vocal, mentally deranged segment.
Not really that surprising as many jobs overlap while merging the companies. Activations blizzard was already a big company (~13000 employees) so now merged they have many people doing the same stuff and that is cut quite fast.
Probably, it wouldn’t surprise me. Just for after a merger the current rate of layoffs aren’t shocking at all. If anything it’s more surprising the number isn’t considerably higher.
Happens with every merger. There are always redundancies when two companies merge.
Depends where people lived. Covid effect where I live didnt end in Jan 2001. A lot of places were still closed, had mask mandates, a lot of office workers WFH. We didn't go back to office till 2022 at only 1 day per week.
