It seems to be like Ubisoft is planning much more layoffs to accompany final week’s studio closures and sport cancellations, . The corporate is planning an enormous discount of the workforce in its Paris headquarters. It has proposed the lack of as much as 200 jobs, which is sort of 20 % of the present workers.
This might be organized beneath France’s , by which workers can conform to type a collective, voluntary mutual termination settlement. It isn’t a carried out deal simply but, with an organization spokesperson saying “at this stage, this stays a proposal and no resolution might be remaining till a collective settlement is reached.”
The RCC course of is voluntary, which is sweet for Ubisoft Paris workers, however the firm hasn’t made any assertion relating to what it might do if it would not get 200 keen members. The corporate lately for workers to return to the workplace for 5 days every week, which might entice staffers with one foot out the door.
That is simply the most recent cost-cutting measure by Ubisoft, as the corporate has been . It shut down its Halifax studio workers entered right into a unionization settlement. Final week, it shuttered its Stockholm studio and introduced at a number of different builders beneath its umbrella.
It additionally introduced the cancellation of six video games, together with the long-awaited Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake. It did not reveal the opposite 5 video games that had been scrapped. Ubisoft did announce, nonetheless, that seven extra video games had been being delayed. Inexplicably, Past Good and Evil 2 , so we’ve that to (someday) look ahead to.
Ubisoft’s inventory has completely plunged previously a number of years. The corporate was driving excessive at $20 per share in 2021, however now the inventory .
