They’ve been making people redundant left right and centre for the last few years. They overstretched and overhired after going public and are now being bitten by recession and terrible decisions, of which the recent licence fiasco is just one.
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The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 7 months ago
If management hadn’t created that PR disaster, these people would probably still have jobs.
smeg@feddit.uk 7 months ago
zib@kbin.social 7 months ago
That's it exactly. In addition to over-hiring during COVID, the massive spending spree from a ton of over-inflated, short-sighted acquisitions ever since the IPO absolutely demolished the company's budget. Cutting Weta Digital was only the tip of this latest iceberg.
amio@kbin.social 7 months ago
Wanna bet whether or not the idiot CEO is still going to be on payroll?
chakan2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Welcome to corporate, the C level is never the problem.
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I mean… The CEO was forced out after the disaster.
spudwart@spudwart.com 7 months ago
Yes forced out the window, with his golden parachute.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That CEO was brought in to take the heart for that decision. I’m not sure that really counts…
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
He was? I hadn’t heard anything like that-- Can you point me to some reading?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Granted, he was the former CEO of EA Games.