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Unity Software to lay off 1,800 employees, or 25% of staff (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by askat@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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Unity Software said Monday that it would lay off about 1,800 employees, or 25% of its overall workforce, as part of a corporate restructuring plan.
The company said it is unable to “reasonably estimate the costs and charges in connection with this reduction, which it expects will be substantially incurred in the first quarter of 2024.”
In October, John Riccitiello retired as Unity’s CEO, while former Red Hat CEO James Whitehurst became interim CEO.

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[–] askat@programming.dev 42 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Still boggles my mind that Unity has 7700 employees. It's funny how Godot while having only 10(?) developers is considered good alternative for Unity.

[–] derfl007@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

TBF godot is open source and has over 2300 contributors on github. Still less than unity and most of those don't get paid for their work, but saying that there are only 10 developers is not true and not fair to all of the people contributing in their free time

[–] askat@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

True. Didn't think about that.

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