Unity fires more than 200 employees, the CEO just stated a few weeks ago that 'no employees have been fired'
Game media Kotaku reports that Unity Technologies, the developer of the popular
Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers [Update]
https://kotaku.com/sources-unity-laying-off-hundreds-of-staffers-1849125482
Unity is laying off hundreds of employees --Protocol
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/unity-layoffs-game-engine
Unity Technologies is a game engine development company founded in the mid-2000s. Unity is a game engine used by thousands of game developers, and many of you may have seen the Unity logo on the game's launch screen. Unity Technologies welcomed John Rich Tiello, former Head of Electronic Arts (EA), as CEO in 2014. It wasreported that CEO Tiello's compensation increased by 160% in 2020 to $ 22 million. According to Initial Public Offering (IPO) information submitted by Unity Technologies to the stock exchange, the company had 3,300 employees as of June 2020, and sites such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor had 5,000 employees at the time of writing the article. It is written as degree, and you can see that the number of employees is increasing at once.
Kotaku reports that Unity Technologies has made a major layoff in its artificial intelligence (AI) and engineering departments. Kotaku gets information from anonymous Unity Technologies employees and initially reported that the number of employees dismissed was 'about 300-400.' According to sources, Unity Technologies layoffs are still underway and more employees will be dismissed in the future.
An employee who was dismissed in the fifth week of June 2022 was suddenly asked by his boss to join a video call, and he was notified of the dismissal. Employees of Unity Technologies' Human Resources Department also participated in the video conference. Employees who have been notified of the dismissal can apply for a move to another department using the in-house recruitment system, but Unity Technologies has frozen hiring in all departments, so whether the move will come true or not. Is unknown.
According to sources, Unity Technologies held a plenary meeting in mid-June 2022 with about 3,000 full-time employees, in which CEO Tiello said, 'We have no financial problems and lay off. There are no plans to implement it. '
In response to Kotaku's coverage, Unity Technologies has issued a statement to overseas media Protocol that 'slightly more than 200 employees, or about 4% of our employees, will be dismissed.'
Unity has a statement now confirming the layoffs and also confirming they're affecting 4% of its workforce, or slightly more than 200 people going off the latest employee count from last year's SEC 10-K form. Pic.twitter.com/T8KfxpKqZt
— Nick Statt (@nickstatt) June 30, 2022
In addition, Unity Technologies acquired Parsec, which develops game streaming technology, for 320 million dollars (about 43 billion yen) in August 2021, and digital effects established by movie director Peter Jackson in November 2021. We've bought the studio Weta for $ 1.62 billion, but it's unclear if these have led to financial pressure.
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