Ubisoft introduced a main overhaul plan at present, and staff on the online game behemoth usually are not speaking it effectively.
The reorganization requires the cancellation of 6 initiatives, the delay of seven others, and maybe most notably for this story, an extra price chopping of 200m Euros over the subsequent two years, and they’re implementing “acceleration of price discount initiatives to rightsize the group”, a phrasing that just about at all times means layoffs.
Considered one of France’s greatest unions, Solidares Informatique is asking for a half-day strike at Ubisoft Paris tomorrow morning. Of their submit they name the reorganization plan “disastrous bulletins” citing the cost-cutting plan, cancellation of initiatives, and finish of distant working. In addition they issued calls for for what they need for the staff:
- The top of the cost-cutting plan,
- Sustaining and increasing the teleworking circumstances,
- Respectable pay raises this 12 months.
They go onto state that that is merely their preliminary response, and that they’re discussing different strikes, presumably for longer durations or at different Ubisoft studios in France.
It’s out of the query to let a boss run wild and destroy our working circumstances. Maybe we have to remind him that it’s his workers who make the video games.
That is the newest little bit of issue for Ubisoft who’s making an attempt to rebuild following some troublesome fiscal durations. Solely a pair days in the past former Murderer’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté introduced he was suing Ubisoft for over $1.3m following his ‘constructive dismissal’, which brought about him to depart the corporate in October of 2025.
That was tied to their group into ‘artistic homes’ which appears to have been partially finished to get funding in Vantage Studios, which shall be managing Ubisoft’s largest three IPs: Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six. Ubisoft has additionally just lately closed its Halifax studio after it organized right into a union, and introduced extra layoffs at Large Leisure and Ubisoft Stockholm final week.
