Unity set to lay off 1,800 employees in its largest \u201ccompany reset\u201d ever UnityUnity reportedly intends to lay off 1,800 employees in their \u2018company reset\u2019 in what will be the largest round of layoffs ever for the video game software developer. An internal company memo obtained by Reuters has revealed Unity will lay off 1,800 employees by March this year. The layoffs form part of the plans for a \u201ccompany reset\u201d, announced last year by new Unity CEO, Jim Whitehurst. In the memo dated January 8, 2024, Whitehurst tells employees Unity will be \u201creducing the number of things\u201d the company was doing to \u201cfocus\u201d on their \u201ccore business\u201d and \u201clong-term success.\u201d The company also told Reuters the \u201cdeep job cuts will affect all teams, regions, and areas of the business\u201d. The first phase of the \u201creset\u201d began in November last year, with Unity terminating their agreement with Peter Jackson\u2019s visual effects company. The last 12 months have not been easy for Unity, the massive developer found itself in hot water last year, after it tried to impose a controversial \u201cRuntime Fee\u201d. The fee would have forced devs to pay up each time their game was installed on a PC. The fee was later walked back by then interim CEO, Marc Whitten, who apologized to developers and promised to heed their concerns. Unity has been an integral part of the game industry for years. Its engine has been used to build a slew of smash indie hits, including Cult of the Lamb, Among Us, Cuphead, and Fall Guys to name a few. It also powers popular mobile games like Pok\u00e9mon Go and Call of Duty: Mobile too. The layoffs from Unity are a concerning start to the year for the gaming industry, which saw record layoffs last year from companies including Microsoft, Ubisoft, and Relic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unity set to lay off 1,800 employees in its largest \u201ccompany reset\u201d ever UnityUnity reportedly intends to lay off 1,800 employees in their \u2018company reset\u2019 in what will be the largest round of layoffs ever for the video game software developer. An internal company memo obtained by Reuters has revealed Unity will lay off 1,800 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}