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Activision Blizzard Lay Off Hundreds of California Workers

It's confirmed that Activision Blizzard are laying off more of their staff in Southern California, with the number totaling 400.

wccftech.com

*Once again, there are more layoffs. This time, those responsible are Activision Blizzard, which will soon lay off almost 400 people in the mobile game divisions of its company, which are located in Santa Monica and Irvine. In this way, it eliminates layoffs among staff after its costly merger with Microsoft last year, which cost $75.4 billion.

It is no longer surprising that Activision Blizzard fires its staff, since last year it fired 1,003 employees from Novato, Foster City and Southern California, according to documents submitted to the Department of Employment Development. *

 

[winjer]

Even EA would be jealous of Microsoft's recent kill count.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Killstreak achieved?

 

[adamsapple]

Regarding the most recent layoffs, she states, "The 400 roles you're seeing in the system are part of the recent news and are not new.

Mallorca'd again.

You already made this thread when it actually happened.

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