Neowin News Feed for: Firing

Layoffs at PlayStation studios reported following live service game cancelations

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:48:01 +0000

Multiple reports say that Sony is doing another round of layoffs at its first-party studios, and those who worked on canceled live service projects seem to be targeted. Read more...

Team 17 will likely face mass layoffs in a newly revealed restructuring as its CEO departs

John Callaham — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:16:01 +0000

The UK-based game developer and publisher confirmed it has "amicably parted ways" with its CEO Michael Pattison, as it enters into a period of consultation where as many as 50 employees are at risk Read more...

Take-Two Interactive is the latest tech company to announce layoffs, mostly in the US

John Callaham — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:16:01 +0000

The parent company of Rockstar Games, 2K Games, Zynga, and Private Division will lay off an unknown number of employees, mostly in its "corporate operations and label publishing" divisions. Read more...

ByteDance finds four employees had accessed US journalists' TikTok data; fires them

Hemant Saxena — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:06:01 +0000

An internal report from ByteDance reveals it has fired four employees for inappropriately accessing TikTok data of 2 U.S. journalists in an attempt to track down the source of information leaks. Read more...

Amazon to lay off thousands of employees amid economic turmoil

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:42:01 +0000

E-commerce giant Amazon is planning to lay off around 10,000 employees in corporate and technology jobs as soon as this week. The job cuts will affect people in Amazon's devices org, including Alexa. Read more...

Meta announces mass layoff of more than 11,000 employees worldwide

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:26:02 +0000

Meta has announced that it will be laying off more than 11,000 of its employees. The mass layoffs are part of the company's transition to become a leaner and more efficient company. Read more...

Google fires engineer who claimed that company's AI has become sentient

Usama Jawad — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 05:52:01 +0000

Google has fired a senior engineer who claimed that the company's AI has become sentient and wants to be recognized as a person who has a say in its future, essentially passing the Turing Test. Read more...

Sacked Google employee files lawsuit against company citing bias

Sharath Ravishankar — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:08:01 +0000

A lawsuit has been filed against Google by an employee it sacked recently, who alleges that the company exhibits bias against white and Asian men in favor of women and people of color. Read more...

Despite beating its own financial expectations, Seagate will lay off 6,500 employees

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:14:01 +0000

Seagate has ended its most recent financial quarter on a high note with the company beating its own revenue and profit expectations. But it also announced it will lay off 6,500 workers. Read more...

'Dozens' more employees are getting fired in Microsoft's phone division

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:08:02 +0000

Despite thousands of firings over the past couple of years it looks like Microsoft is still not finished with its restructuring. Further job cuts are expected in its phone division. Read more...

Sony to lay off 1000 people in smartphone divisions

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:06:01 +0000

According to a new report from Japan, Sony is planning to cut approximately 1000 jobs from its smartphone division in Europe and China. This comes after consecutive quarters of losses. Read more...