2024 will bring more layoffs and closures than 2023
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What are we supposed to do, pretend we don't know everything?
Talk for yourself, I’m an armchair executive supervising coach level three… I get a company chair of my choice
True.
I think he owns and runs his company, I could be wrong about the former, maybe he’s a founder…I don’t know exact details. So I’m a way he’s talking with experience
Ah, ok. I thought he was with a media outlet. Shows how much I know. Maybe I am thinking of Tom Warren.
Probably avoiding another redfall scenario, can't blame him for leaving either he was with MS for 20 years probably doesn't want to be part of them again.
Yeah, he’s doing work with an Xbox dev and has worked with other devs in development collaboration for games or other projects in relation to specific IP.
I know Tom has his own company too, but they do like plug-ins for windows 10 and 11, again I don’t know the exact details, but I know he’s a hands on dev as well. I think he’s worked in said field before media coverage, kinda like major Nelson was a behind the scenes at ms, then went to Xbox and then started podcast with other employees.
This whole "eat the rich" response to the layoffs is completely juvenile. This has nothing to do with "but the greeeeedy CEOs."
Yes, the tech and gaming industries have been hit hard, but so have just about every industry across the board. Over-hiring post COVID, combined with inflation, and global political problems has led to this. Companies are trying to avert complete meltdown.
That being said, layoffs en masse is nothing new. The same companies will start re-hiring in a couple of quarters.
Yes, the tech and gaming industries have been hit hard, but so have just about every industry across the board. Over-hiring post COVID, combined with inflation, and global political problems has led to this. Companies are trying to avert complete meltdown.
That being said, layoffs en masse is nothing new. The same companies will start re-hiring in a couple of quarters.
Well I’m this case I don’t think they’re going after them, more like making note of them.
Agree with ya on the latter two statements tho, still sucks in the moment, for those to be affected
AAAH….i see
True, but games like Hellblade 2 abs hifi rush are, to some, considered AA games, they just have fincial stability (or almost no worries about that)?
Bloody Thursday. This sucks.
Activision customer support… have you seen how they rape COD players.
Activision customer support… have you seen how they rape COD players.
I will say in IT in general this is really common. There was a massive hiring boom post-covid. Companies struggled to find people, and often hired all they could. So now there's kind of this post-bubble crash. The rest of IT is not seeing anything like this, but there's certainly a lot more layoffs in IT than in other industries.
I know multiple people who were getting cold calls based on their linkedin profile when they weren't even looking for work. Companies were panicking and hiring anyone they could find.
In gaming, you have companies basically not being run well and you get a perfect storm.
I know multiple people who were getting cold calls based on their linkedin profile when they weren't even looking for work. Companies were panicking and hiring anyone they could find.
In gaming, you have companies basically not being run well and you get a perfect storm.
I posted in another thread but this was easy to see coming, they grew too much and there was no way they were keeping that many people on the payroll. It's not just MS obviously Sony and others have and will be laying people off too but not at this level simply because they didn't go out and spend billions buying publishers and growing the entire company as much as Xbox did for MS.
He probably used the wrong pronouns when replying to someone there, that'll do it lol.