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As reported by Polygon’s Nicole Carpenter, Telltale says it let “some” of its team go “due to current market conditions,” though all games in development are “still in production.”
Earlier on Thursday, a person who says they used to work at Telltale claimed the company laid “most of us off” in early September.
Update October 5th, 8:52PM ET: I reached out to Telltale to try and get details about how many were laid off, but Telltale spokesperson Elizabeth Olson declined to share that.
The job cuts hit Twitch’s customer experience organization, according to GamesIndustry.biz. Amazon cut “just over” 400 jobs at Twitch earlier this year. Zach Bussey, who covers Twitch closely, says Tuesday’s cuts are “significantly smaller” than that round of layoffs.
[GamesIndustry.biz]
Eurogamer and VG247 report a Team17 spokesperson confirms CEO Michael Pattison, who joined the company two years ago after leaving PlayStation, is out. In 2022, Team17 was one of the companies that announced plans for an NFT project, before backtracking.
In response to rumors of plans for layoffs with “tens of redundancies,” the statement says:
We can also confirm that we have sadly entered into a period of consultation today within Team17 Digital, with Astragon and Storytoys remaining unaffected by the restructuring plans.
A Bloomberg report on the news says that relocation decisions will happen “at the department level.” Amazon now requires employees to work from the office at least three days per week.
The relocations are being instituted following a round of layoffs in March affecting 9,000 jobs. Those layoffs are on top of the 18,000 job cuts Amazon had already made.
The cuts will affect 210 workers in the company’s Bellevue and Redmond offices and 66 virtual staffers, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) email. The cuts hit customer service, support, and sales, GeekWire reports.
They could be announced as soon as next week, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company laid off about 3,000 employees in August.
The layoffs translate to about 5 percent of the company’s 2,000 workers, according to The Wall Street Journal. The changes come at a bit of a rough period for the company, which is getting some blowback for its planned API pricing changes that could charge developers far more than they can afford.
According to Reuters, Meta workers in areas including “marketing, recruiting, engineering and corporate communications” posted on LinkedIn about being laid off. Meta laid off 11,000 employees in November and announced the latest rounds of cuts in March, which it said would affect 10,000 staffers.
They’re expected to affect more than 2,500 jobs, according to Deadline. The second round happened in April, affecting approximately 4,000.
In a filing with the SEC, the game engine maker announced that it’s laying off about eight percent of its workforce. It says the job cuts come as it “restructures specific teams in order to continue to position itself for long-term and profitable growth.”
About 100 roles are impacted, according to TheWrap and Business Insider. Amazon began laying off employees in its cloud and HR divisions yesterday. The company last month announced it would be cutting an additional 9,000 staffers.
That translates into 1,072 workers that will be out of a job after the company said it would undertake a “restructuring” to reduce operating costs. These layoffs come after the beleaguered ridehail company laid off 13 percent of staff last November. Lyft’s May 4th first quarter earnings call are sure to be brutal. The company’s share price fell off a cliff earlier this year and has yet to really recover.
[Fast Company]