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Epic Games is reportedly laying off around 900 employees | Said to be roughly 16% of its workforce. (www.eurogamer.net)
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Epic Games is reportedly laying off around 900 employees | Said to be roughly 16% of its workforce.::UPDATE 4.54pm: Epic has confirmed reports of widespread layoffs at the company, saying the move will affect "around 830…

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Unity has 7700 employees, and they only create a game engine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have a hard time wrapping my brain around it taking 7700 people to create a game engine. But I'm not in that industry and have no idea what's involved.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me neither, but iirc Valve has 300 employees total. It seems massively out of proportion.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

Yeah like Twitter had 7500+ employees before Elon went and fired 90% of them. Sure the site is worse off for it, but it still runs. Clearly most of that 90% were nonessential to the function of the company.

A lot of these tech companies are bloated like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

AFAIK most of them are salespeople.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Not just a game engine, Unity is a software company with numerous services. Mainly game related though. There’s the Unity ads platform which probably employs hundreds in Finland alone. Unity is used from entertainment to manufacturing industry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't that 2022 numbers? They've fired a lot of people lately, not sure the number they're at now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah, my quick search unearthed the number from 2022.