… However, not long after Deadline’s report, several outlets, including Forbes and Reuters , reported on an internal email from Disney’s CEO trying to explain the massive cuts as the result of the “fast-moving pace” of the industry. the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference… …
… Studio leader and 19-year veteran David Anfossi is also stepping down amid the cuts. “The reduction in workforce affecting 124 employees is a result of changing project needs and impacts across production and support teams,” the studio announced on Monday. “Today is a difficult day for our studio a… …
… As announced in September, the consortium is planning to buy EA for $55 billion, and shortly after announcing the deal, EA promised no “immediate changes” to its workforce. …
… Seemingly penned by former World of Warcraft GM and current WotC president John Hight, it includes a number of lines heavily implying that a unionized workforce would be worse off than a non-union one, including suggestions that workers may end up with worse benefits or wages than they have now. …
… Around 2,000 Xbox employees were let go in January of 2024 , reducing the workforce by around 8.6 percent. …
… But the company also confirmed to Kotaku that developers on its flagship horror franchise Dead by Daylight were among those laid off, and the timing of the cuts, so closely following both a recent union push at the company as well as unrest over changing policies, has some questioning the motives b… …
… People use “bipolar” as a way to describe what some view as an inconsistent response to something, but Caulfield fails to realize that booing the notion that technology is being used to replace human jobs and applauding that this was once not a concern for college kids who are about to head out int… …
… The rocket ship is here.” If your thesis is that a group of graduates who are about to head into a workforce that has been disrupted by AI—which corporations are using to cut human workers off the payroll—should not accept that the future has already been determined for them, why continue to insist… …
… Others are horrified , especially in regards to severing the workforce. …