More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, just three weeks before Christmas
More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, just three weeks before Christmas
2023 was bad, but 2024 looks even worse.
Ubisoft ofc
I used to work in HR at one of the largest employers in my country. Layoffs, work force adjustments, rescinding of telework, negative things in general are purposefully picked to be given on Fridays or before holidays.
The theory is that by doing so, you minimize risk to the company. If they commit suicide, they do so on the weekend or during the holidays, off of work time and not close enough that a judge would deem it on work time.
Secondly, weekends or just before the holidays supposedly allows employees to seek out support to potentially avoid a risk to the company (like I mentioned above).
Thirdly, weekends or just before the holidays allows a period of time for supposed emotional cooling, which lowers risks to the company of the employee sabotaging their work, undermining anything, or creating security incidents.
Damn, I thought the holidays were filled with suicide due to loneliness. I should have known it was capitalism. It always is
No, it's not. Communist East Germany also had higher suicide rates during holidays - but it was a state secret there, because suicides couldn't possibly be happening in the perfect "workers' and peasants' paradise". They had the highest suicide rate in Europe, ahead of every capitalist country. Even performing research on the topic was forbidden.
The East German suicide rate of 31 per 100k population would be the fourth highest in the world today. Compare it to modern-day capitalist Germany (8.3), USA (14.5) or even South Korea (21.2).
That's why piracy is not an issue...
You are not supporting the devs, they get laid off generally as the game is released because who wants to pay for dead weight 🤡
Yeah, I've seen headlines like this pop up for the past few years near Christmas. I think companies just want to cheat their devs out of Christmas bonuses.
heck I was let go just after the financial year but just before yearly bonuses were given out so I worked the full year and did not get it even though they like to list it as compensation. Its one reason when looking I don't take any bonus bs as meaningful. Only actual wage.
Labor is so devalued right now.
They'll just get an AI to make their games
Christmas isn't even still a thing.
The one time i used kotaku was when they accumulated the layoffs at the start if the year and updated it daily