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Unity Cutting About 1,800 People In Company's Largest Layoff (kotaku.com)
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A new report says Unity is cutting around 1,800 jobs, or about 25 percent of the its employees, according to a regulatory filing and internal company memo obtained by Reuters on Monday.

This is reportedly the largest round of layoffs in the software company’s history—far larger than what happened in November of last year—and it will be completed by the end of March. Unity has gone through three prior rounds of layoffs within the last 12 months.

“We are … reducing the number of things we are doing in order to focus on our core business and drive our long-term success and profitability,” interim CEO Jim Whitehurst wrote in an internal memo obtained by Reuters. The memo was sent to all Unity employees on January 8.

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[–] testman@lemmy.ml 43 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Published January 8, 2024

not exactly news
but still worth researching what the consequences of this were

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 days ago

And yet another instance of people paying for the mistakes of the higher ups.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 27 points 6 days ago

Congratulations to Godot for all their new volunteer devs.

[–] iusearchbtw@lemm.ee 24 points 6 days ago

this is almost year old news

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Downvote, its not January anymore.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My heart goes out to the workers trying to make the best of really terrible administrative decisions on the part of their leadership.

The business has lost trust in their brand.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

And by core business they mean their ad platform presumably.