Unity Software to lay off 1,800 employees as part of a corporate restructuring::Unity Software is slashing about 25% of its workforce just eight months after announcing its prior round of layoffs.

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      11 months ago

      Totally. The classic MBA move of firing important people who’s role he doesn’t understand, seeing short term gains from lack of salaries, and exits the company just in time for it to tank because it can’t operate without those people. Walks away with a few cool million, on to his next company to suck dry.

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      11 months ago

      Those stock grants aren’t going to grant themselves son. Literally Lord Farquad. “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”

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    11 months ago

    Ah yes, fire 1,800 employees that bring value to the company. Definitely don’t fire the brain dead, overpaid executives that destroyed the companies credibility with a terrible monetization scheme.

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    First they fuck their customers, then they fuck their employees. Execs are doing a great job, probably gonna give themselves a raise.

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    11 months ago

    After what they tried to pull a few months back I have no sympathy.

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      11 months ago

      None for unity, but I have tons for the employees. Company execs made some dumb decision and now they are losing their jobs.

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      11 months ago

      New CEO now though. Old CEO fucked Unity hard. Jim is the old RedHat CEO before IBM bought them. He was super well liked there. So I have some faith in him getting things back on track and having a good company culture. Just takes time and unfortunately wrecking ball some times. I speak as someone who has been laid off from corporate restructuring before. I found bigger better things with more pay.

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    11 months ago

    It’s crazy to think that people are still making new games on Unity after it’s been made painfully obvious that the company is in the corporate downward spiral of enshittification.

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    11 months ago

    How long until Godot is a drop in replacement for Unity lol. We need open source to save us from these asshole corps