Right this moment, Ubisoft will lay off 124 staff as a part of a price slicing technique. These departures are taking place throughout a number of of its departments, together with many at its Canadian workplaces.

The layoffs are hitting quite a lot of departments at Ubisoft, together with some administrative groups, Ubisoft IT, and Hybride, the corporate’s SFX studio. In an announcement to Kotaku, the corporate defined the reasoning behind the transfer. 

“Ubisoft is continuing with a collective dismissal in its Montreal institution throughout the framework of a reorganization of its manufacturing assist providers throughout Canada, by consolidating these features Canada huge, Ubisoft will be capable of optimize its assets to be extra sustainable in the long run.” 

The corporate additionally stated it’s “offering complete assist for our colleagues who might be leaving Ubisoft throughout this transition” and emphasised that the present restructuring received’t impact its manufacturing groups. 

Déjà vu

Ubisoft as a complete has been going through challenges recently. Prolonged delays for video games like Past Good and Evil 2 and xDefiant have undoubtedly affected the corporate. Simply this Could, Ubisoft let go dozens of staff at its North Carolina and Newcastle places. Workers on the time stated they got no discover that they might be dropping their jobs.

Sadly that is a part of an ongoing pattern within the gaming business this yr.  In September Epic Video games lower 16% of its workforce. Simply final month Naughty Canine and Telltale Video games had been hit by a wave of layoffs. Greater than a dozen completely different corporations have confronted layoffs within the again half of 2023 alone.