EA to Lay Off Six Percent of Workforce in Restructuring Move

[TheLostSwede]

Electronic Arts is getting ready to lay off upwards of six percent of its workforce, as the company restructures its game portfolio. The company had some 12,900 employees globally in March 2022 according to Games Industry.biz and should as such be laying off some 775 employees. This is far less than we've seen from other companies and it won't affect all of EA's subsidiaries equally. The EA CEO—Andew Wilson—sent out a memo to the company employees that have been posted publicly on EA's website. It seems like EA will make the cuts fairly quickly, as the company is expected to be done informing affected employees sometime early in its next fiscal year, which starts on April first.

It's unclear exactly where EA will be making the cuts and according to Games Industry.biz the company has already trimmed some 200 employees that were working in support, most of them specifically supporting Apex Legends. That said, Apex Legends, EA Sports FIFA 23 and The Sims are the only games mentioned in the announcement, so presumably those titles are safer than others. At the same time, TPU spoke to a contact at a different EA subsidiary and there had been no mention of any redundancies there and the person in question works on another successful series of games. We'll have to wait and see if EA drops any projects the company is working on or if some titles end up being discontinued earlier than expected, due to lack of support from the teams that built the games. Regardless, EA is about to re-focus on what should be its more successful titles, which may or may not be a successful strategy for the company.



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[FreedomEclipse]

if they already dropped people from customer support. My guess would be the people from QA are next.

Not that EA has them do much of anything anyway these days....

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

if they already dropped people from customer support. My guess would be the people from QA are next.

Not that EA has them do much of anything anyway these days....

They have a QA department?



I guess it is to test the monetization schemes, not the games themselves...

 

[bonehead123]

One thing you can be sure of....

The people who will be let go will be the ones at or near the bottom ranks, but NOT any of the mgmt or execs.... heaven forbid that any of them suffer any from the eco-downturns and therefore not be able to buy anutha yacht, beachhouse or maserati......oh no, we can't have that now, can we

 

[ReallyBigMistake]

EA ruined and destroyed so many studios and IPs.
I wish they would go bankrupt but they have so much money and the Madden license it seems it will never happen. I hope that them losing the FIFA license hurts them in some way

 

[Loppollz]

I hope they fail and fill for bankruptcy ASAP, i will never spend a dime on there game, no matter what. If i dont see BF5 updated properly and fixed i will never ever give em a cent.

Crap support or no support at all.
Buggy engine and buggy apps. (Origin and EA app are massive peace of trash) That come after more then 10 years of development, and they achieved - NOTHING.
BF series are crowded with hackers, they know it, and dont do ANYTHING about it.

2042 is dumpster fire that i hope will put that studio in the grave...