• samc@feddit.uk
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      7 days ago

      Its a british thing. If a company wants to lay off a large amount of employees, they have to go through a process called consultation. This obliges them to sit down with your trade union rep (if you have one) and tell them why your job is being cut.

      Not sure how much difference it makes in practice, but at the very least it guarantees a 40 day period between announcing redundancies and actually firing people.

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      8 days ago

      Their CEO quit end of June without any reason stated. Sounds like he was the first one to get laid off.

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          8 days ago

          Most of these layoffs are VC groups pulling funding from gaming companies to shift to AI investments

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            7 days ago

            Yeah because they think that AI will make the games in the future.

            Have you seen AI make games they’re terrible. They objectively work but they’re not good games because AI has no creativity.

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              7 days ago

              I doubt they even care, VCs are there for investment returns, they don’t give a shit about anything else