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[Deerock71]

A company I do contract work for has done something similar where they made offers to long term employees to "retire" with the not so subtle suggestion that if they don't accept they might be part of the "downsizing" plans in the near future. The company was doing quite badly financially but they've managed to turn things around since.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Voluntary resignation or other programs like that comes with financial incentives.

Yup.

Voluntary layoffs are beneficial for those affected workers too because often they'll have some flexibility when to leave. Unless the company has a very rigid voluntary layoff situation where they want all of them gone on the same day, each person can often negotiate a last day like submission date + 60 days, or let me to work till XXX date or something like that. The company should also be more flexible if anyone needs to skip out one day for an interview.

But if you are at the mercy of an outright firing, it can come out of nowhere and who knows what they offer you.

When I got laid off long time ago in a restructuring, they gave me like 3 months lead time, told me the exact date and paid me a supplemental pay out on top of my normal severance for sticking around to smooth things out. My boss also said anytime I need to leave for an interview go ahead. I got a new job about a month after my last day which was a better job and paid like $20k more + a better bonus. And since I got those payouts, I actually made money off it. I was off a month waiting for the new job to start, but got the equivalent of about 3-4 months extra pay.

 

[evanft]

VSPs are pretty common at big companies. Every really big company I've worked for has had one at some point.

 

[Aressa]

Jason is slacking. This is his type of news.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Volunteer Career Transition will become Immediate Career Termination if there are no volunteers.

 

[Skifi28]

The corp I work at has had such a program for years and it's more successful than ever. I don't think it's such a big deal on its own, it's a pretty common practice.

 

[Astray]

But AC:Shadows was a sucess.

Wrong studio my friend.

Massive made the Avatar game + Star Wars Outlaws.

 

[Dazraell]

Downsized to Medium Entertainment

Seriously though, sucks for the devs

 

[digimaster7]

But AC:Shadows was a sucess.

but it has 4 concordillion player!!!

still love the concord jokes even if its overused a little bit

 

[FF:Enhanced_Reality]

"Please quit so we don't have to pay out your unemployment"

Depends where you are, where I live you tend to get better deals through voluntary redundancy and additional support than if you go until the end.

 

[Zathalus]

Pity about Massive, Avatar and Star Wars were average games, but the Snowdrop engine is great. Hopefully they get better writers and designers while the engine developers stay on.

 

[Ellis]

Pre Backroomcastingcouch photo ?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Why?

They had the massive success of AC:Shadows.

Everyone is safe cause that made a crazy profit and was beloved.

That's what journalist told me.

You cut costs and on stable revenue your profit goes up. EPS goes up, which makes share price goes up. Execs get a nice bonus, investors are happy. Fuck the employees.

 

[consoul]

Ubisacked.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Wrong studio my friend.

Massive made the Avatar game + Star Wars Outlaws.

The AC brand manager was fired. you don't fire people who make profits, unless they are criminal offenders, like other execs at Ubisoft.

 

[Astray]

The AC brand manager was fired. you don't fire people who make profits, unless they are criminal offenders, like other execs at Ubisoft.

He wasn't fired he left due to internal politics around the restructuring.

If the game failed you would be seeing similar things to what you're seeing here. Ubisoft's issues are very deep and way too numerous for a single hit to carry them back to safety.

 

[GamesDontSuck]

So... offering redundancy?

 

[Boss Mog]

Never forget:

They definitely deserve their firing.

 

[jason10mm]

Mind blowing they funded Gayvatar and Sheboss Wars over a AAAA Division 3 they should have been working on this whole time. The extortive royalties alone made those guaranteed failures from day 0.

I saw this earlier and was very confused

Also is this the first time we've seen them confirm The Division 3? They are by far the best modern Ubisoft games, but I'm sure a new one will be a hellish GaaS

Yeah, that's the first TD3 I've seen. Good to know they're working on it - loved 1 and 2. Fingers crossed it's along those lines and not just a straight cash grab to keep Ubisoft afloat.

I want Division 3 to be set in San Francisco where the main character looks out at the cityscape, filled with trash, vandalized buildings, shambling homeless, looted stores, feces everywhere, and says "huh, looks nicer now than before the virus!"

I would love a new Division, but I have little faith they will keep it to a soloable looter shooter experience not riddled with microtransactions, timed MP events, and general obnoxious fuckery.