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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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[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 13 points 8 months ago

I was digging into it because that baffled me.

It looks like Unity Software provides a lot of services related to Unity and Cloud usage of the engine. I'm guessing this is a ton of consultants.

Godot is being pushed as an alternative for indie developers who likely weren't using those services. Those services are likely being used by developers making more mainstream games like Pokemon Go and Call of Duty Mobile.

Most of their employees are likely in that realm and marketing/sales