Microsoft cuts the 650 positions out of the game, a ‘sacrifice’ to the new, after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the producer of the “Call of Duty”.
The elimination of the role is mainly in the business and support for the Microsoft Gaming that aims to “develop the business of our long-term success after the acquisition of the 69 billion dollars, he said to the employees, the head of the unit's Phil Spencer on a side note, to the first of the AFP. Today, it is one of the few days of hard,” said Spencer in a note. “I know that you will face with a lot of changes like this, it's hard to do.”
Trade union of Workers in the Communications of America's (CWA), which includes members from the games, videos, called the leaves of the work is “extremely disappointing” that come after the publication of the branch of Sony Interactive Entertainment Bungie for the 220 layoffs in July.
“The discharge of the vicious, and the like are becoming more common,” said Samuel Cooper, a producer of top of the World of Warcraft, and a member of the CWA, in a statement from the organizers of the trade unions.
Microsoft is January last year was the work of 1,900 men of the division of the use, or eight per cent, of his staff, as konsolidoi the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Spencer then said to the employees of Microsoft, and Activision were committed to finding a “structure with a consistent costing for increasing the business of video games which employ 22,000 people, and included a division Xbox. Microsoft started buying in January 2022, which made it the company's third-biggest game in the world by revenue. None of the game or the device, it will not be canceled, and no studio will not be closed as part of the “adjustments” made to the unit, use the Microsoft provided Spencer.
A vacation from work, and have become common in the industry of video games to the video, the Sony PlayStation, in the beginning of this year we announced that we shkurtonte eight per cent of the global workforce. Calling it the “news of sorrow”, the head of the Player's Jim Ryan said that the reduction would affect over 900 people in all around the world, including most of the video games to the video. At the company's Play in London, it was established in the year 2002, and specialized projects in the use of virtual reality, has been closed.
In total, the industry and technology, has lost about 260,000 jobs last year, according to the layoffs.fyi, a website based in California, which plots the industry. So far this year, there have been 136,360 a vacation from work, written to the home page, out of 435 companies, technologies.
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