Ubisoft announced a major overhaul plan today, and workers at the video game behemoth are not talking it well.
The reorganization calls for the cancellation of 6 projects, the delay of 7 others, and perhaps most notably for this story, an additional cost cutting of 200m Euros over the next two years, and they are implementing "acceleration of cost reduction initiatives to rightsize the organization", a phrasing that almost always means layoffs.
One of France's biggest unions, Solidares Informatique is calling for a half-day strike at Ubisoft Paris tomorrow morning. In their post they call the reorganization plan "disastrous announcements" citing the cost-cutting plan, cancellation of projects, and end of remote working. They also issued demands for what they want for the employees:
They go onto state that this is merely their initial reaction, and that they are discussing other strikes, presumably for longer periods or at other Ubisoft studios in France.
It is out of the question to let a boss run wild and destroy our working conditions. Perhaps we need to remind him that it is his employees who make the games.
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