| BasilZero said: Layoffs are common around this time of the year. |
I know it's happening in the tech industry at large and I know they plan them before the new fiscal quarters/year (fiscal year ends July for Microsoft, I think March is for Japanese companies?). But this is the most layoffs I've ever seen in the gaming industry in particular and it's already an industry with high burnout rates and turnover of employees, it's already an industry which has reportedly been suffering from a lack of available talent and it just sucks to see as well because I'm so closely invested in it.
I know it's just not an Xbox thing, I knew the merger layoffs were coming eventually, I still don't think development staff makes any sense, I'd still be upset if it was only business folk and whatnot, other overlapping areas, but I would at least be able to understand the reason behind it and it would be less employees overall but I'm now both upset by one decision and baffled by the other, along with seeing even more people be fucked in this industry. It's hard to have fun gaming when it's constant bad news about the industry.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 25 January 2024
