Bumble announced that it plans to eliminate over 350 jobs worldwide as part of its restructuring plan this year. The upcoming layoff represents about 37% of the dating app's global workforce.
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Sony has announced that it plans to cut 900 jobs, or 8 percent of its total workforce, worldwide, in its PlayStation division. They include cuts at several of its first-party PlayStation Studios
Expedia Group is cutting 1,500 jobs, mainly from its Product & Technology division. To help support those affected, the company is paying severance and giving employment assistance.
UK-based Supermassive Games have confirmed it will be going through a reorganization that will likely result in layoffs, with one report claiming the developer will cut 90 team members
In its latest quarterly financial report, the video game publisher Embrancer Group confirmed it has so far laid off 1,387 of its employees since its restructuring began in mid-2023.
Cisco is the latest company to announce layoffs. The company said that it will axing 4,250 jobs after predicting weaker performance going forward. These job cuts affect 5% of its global staff.
Blackbird Interactive, the developer behind the long-delayed space-based RTS game Homeworld 3, has confirmed it has laid off an unspecific number of its team members. It will not affect Homeworld 3.
Mozilla has confirmed it will lay off 60 of its team members, or about 5 percent of its total workforce. It also plans to cut back on many of its products, including one that was launched last week.
New reports claim that Microsoft's recent layoffs will cause the physical office of Activision development studio Toys for Boy to close, although the team itself will reportedly remain.
Visual Concepts, the developer best known for the WWE and NBA 2K series, has laid off employees from teams working on all of its titles. The decision comes as the studio works on WWE 2K24.
Snap, the parent company of the social network Snapchat, has just announced plans to lay off about 10 percent of its workforce, or 529 of its employees, in the latest such job cuts in the tech space.
As part of Microsoft's 1,900 layoffs in its gaming division, the company has reportedly cut a majority of the team members employed at Activision Blizzard's esports division this week.
PayPal lays off about 2,500 employees as the digital payment service faces increased competition and lower profits. CEO Alex Chriss said right-sizing is necessary to accelerate delivery and growth.
The Embracer Group job cuts keep happening as 97 team members at developer Eidos Montreal have been laid off. The team has also canceled an unannounced new game in the Deus Ex series.
Game developers continued to lay off large percentages of their team members this week, including Outriders and Bullestorm's People Can Fly, along with Black Forest Games and Reikon Games.
Some unconfirmed but reliable reports seem to show more of the extent of Thursday's layoffs in the Microsoft Gaming division, including shutting down teams for launching physical games.
Salesforce will lay off about 700 employees, or 1% of its global workforce. The cuts come after Salesforce grew aggressively as cloud demand boomed following a pandemic-era hiring surge.
As part of the large number of layoffs that were made today in Microsoft's gaming division, Blizzard will not be moving forward with its unnamed new survival-based game that was revealed in 2022.
Microsoft is letting go about 1,900 employees from its gaming division, most of whom work in Activision Blizzard. Xbox and ZeniMax employees are also affected by the latest layoffs.
SAP is planning to restructure more than 8,000 jobs internally and is focusing to invest heavily on AI tools and technology in an attempt to automate its processes and prioritize AI-driven growth.
Ebay has announced that it's getting rid of 1,000 jobs and reducing the number of contractors it uses. It is just the latest round of job cuts that have been affecting the tech industry.
Developer Riot Games, best known for its MOBA title League of Legends and its FPS Valorant, announced a round of layoffs that will affect 530 team members or 11 percent of its total workforce.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent out a memo to his employees late on Wednesday, informing them that they should expect more "role eliminations" at the company, but not on the scale of 2023's layoffs.
A new report states Google is cutting about 100 of its employees in its YouTube division, as part of an overall restructuring of its various teams. This is the latest in a series of Google layoffs.
A new report claims that hundreds of people in Google's advertising sales team have been laid off today. This is the latest in a series of smaller cutbacks at the company this year.
Lots Boys Interactive, a game development studio with over 400 team members, got hit with what was called "massive" layoffs today as part of the continuing restructuring of the Embracer Group.
The game-centric online chat and social networking service Discord has become the latest tech company in 2024 to reveal layoffs. It will cut 170 employees or 17 percent of its workforce.
Google is making quite a few changes to its company and products. After the layoffs, it has announced that it will soon be ditching some underutilized features on Google Assistant.
Google confirmed that it had laid off several hundred workers in its Google Assistant and core engineering teams on Wednesday, on top of layoffs in its Devices and Services division.
Amazon is going through another large round of mass layoffs today, including over 500 team members at Twitch and "several hundred" people at its Prime Video and MGM Studios divisions.
The game engine company Unity will lay off 1,800 of its employees, or about 25 percent of its workforce, from now until the end of March, in yet another negative event for the business.
Xerox has become the latest tech company to say that it will be laying off staff and reorganizing its structure. The company had 20,500 employees at the start of 2023 and 15% of those will be let go.
Spotify has decided to layoff 17% or about 1,500 of its employees. The company is trying to cut costs and adjust for a period of slower growth. The decision was announced in an internal memo.
Unity announced the layoff of 265 employees from its partnership with Weta Digital as the services agreement comes to an end. The layoffs will affect roles that support Weta FX's use of Unity tools.
Amazon is making another round of layoffs, which will include over 180 employees in its games division along with an unspecified number of team members in its music streaming division.
Warframe developer Digital Extremes confirmed reports it was closing its game publishing division which will result in an unrevealed number of people being laid off by the company.
Snapchat celebrated its sixth Lens Fest today and shared a new version of the Lens Studio with more capabilities for developers. The Lens Studio 5.0 Beta loads faster and features Gen AI.
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced that the business-themed social network will lay off an additional 668 team members this year, after previously cutting 716 workers in earlier in 2023.
Qualcomm lays off more than 1,200 employees as it cuts costs due to declining revenue from slower smartphone sales and the potential loss of a major customer. The cuts will affect several departments.
Brave Software, best known for its Brave browser, laid off 9% of its workforce in an effort to manage costs amid difficult economic conditions. The job cuts affected departments across the company.