#layoffs news

[livemintvideos]

IT sector to layoff 15,000 to 20,000 employees | Mint Primer | Mint

India’s IT and startup sectors may lay off 15,000 to 20,000 employees in the next six months, battling slowing demand after the hiring frenzy of the last two years inflated salary costs. Recruitment consultants expect fewer hiring mandates in the months ahead and have decided not to enter new businesses for now.

[viiridiangreen]

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[iww-gnv]

The entire game industry is still reeling from yesterday's bombshell announcement that Microsoft—hot on the heels of its $69 billion acquisition of Activision—would be laying off 1,900 employees across Activision-Blizzard and Xbox. Inevitably, Twitter is awash with reactions highlighting the human cost, both from dazed devs waking up in a world in which they no longer have jobs, and from others wondering what this all means for the months and years ahead. The posts by former Blizzard devs are too many to count. "After years of applying," wrote former QA learning specialist Cole McElwain in a much-retweeted post, "I finally secure a job at Blizzard. I move to California and am welcomed with an incredible team. I couldn't be more excited to start… "Four months into the job, I'm laid off. What the hell, Microsoft?"

[reasonsforhope]

Btw, if you really just Need A Job (tm)

I'd really recommend looking into care work

Care work here is specifically being a home care aid, a care aid or assistant at any kind of residential home.

This for usually for elderly or disabled adults - and those are the ones that tend to be most entry level, from what I've seen, but also for mental health, addiction recovery etc. (With the obvious caveat that some of these jobs will be more emotionally intense than others)

I'm so serious about this guys. I was applying to jobs in care work for just three weeks, starting a couple days before Christmas, and in that time I got three interviews, two jobs offers, and five additional interview requests

Care work needs people CONSTANTLY

because it's a huge sector but very hard for them to keep staff long-term. Partly because it can be high burn-out, and there's definitely toxic places out there you should watch out for. And partly because a lot of people think care work is beneath them

AND they ACTUALLY MEAN IT when they say they're entry level. Because it's so hard for them to get staff that a lot of them will advertise super aggressively that they will train you themselves. A lot of them will straight up pay for your CPR and First Aid certifications, once they hire you, too (and you can get a leg up on applications by getting a CPR/First Aid certification for like. $30 to $80, at least in the US). They also accept experience taking care of elderly/disabled/etc. family members as real experience

Like, obviously don't do it if you hate taking care of people, but if you're open to it, it's probably by far your best shot of getting hired rn, statistically

(eta: Genuinely disclaimer that it can be super taxing emotionally and large portions of the industry are indeed fucked, and def don't take a job in this field if you're gonna be an asshole to the people you're caring for, but sometimes you just need whatever job you can get.)

Seriously, though, the first time I applied for a care work job (in October 2023, yes short timeline, like I said there's some toxic workplaces etc. out there), I applied to like ten or fifteen jobs over the course of a week or so. Within three weeks, I was working.

(And they did provide all of the training, fwiw)

If you need a job and no one is hiring, seriously consider looking into it

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada's unemployment rate is just the latest economic indicator flashing red. It climbed to 6.6 per cent last month. Excluding the volatile swings of the COVID era, that's the highest it's been since 2017. And economists say the malaise in the jobs market is deepening. "Layoffs are also rising under the surface. And a down-drift in job openings signals that hiring demand from businesses is still slowing," wrote RBC's deputy chief economist Nathan Janzen in a note to clients. In fact, the whole economy is still slowing.

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[destielmemenews]

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek sent a memo to staff that blamed a slowing economy and said that too many people were hired in 2020 and 2021 when capital was cheaper.

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[emptyadderallbottle]

EA laying off Apex Legends Devs and planning on replacing them with AI

(The first link is to PC Mag, it has pop-ups, so I recommend using an ad blocker.)

According to articles I've seen recently, EA has been laying off employees and plans on replacing some Apex Legends devs with AI in order to increase ingame micro transactions.

Because of this, according to the second link, some players have begun boycotting the game and EA, along with no longer playing the game altogether.

I honestly haven't played the game since the beginning of Breakout, so I could get cosmetics from the anniversary event 💀

But, if what these articles say is true, then I plan on not spending any more money on EA altogether tbh.

If you play the Sims 4, I have a link to a DLC unlocker. I'll link it below. It's by someone in the Sims 4 tumblr community, so there's no need to go any sketchy websites.

I use this and highly recommend using it if you play the game as well. All the Sims 4 DLC combined (kits, packs, etc.) would cost well over a thousand dollars, and no one has that kind of money to be spending on games in this economy 💀

If I find out any more info, I'll try my best to keep this post updated.

[tinyclowndancer]

And when I thought I couldn't like him more, a new skin is unlocked and here's Unionist Matt telling you, yes YOU, to organize and fight for your rights. ✊

I'm not gonna lie that these photos give me a bittersweet feeling, though. As if it wasn't enough for actors to still be vulnerable to the use of AI by studios even after the strike ended, in January SAG-AFTRA signed a deal with an AI studio to use voice replicas in games, instead of opposing completely to it.

It makes me happy to know he was involved in the strike but at the same time... being stabbed in the back by those who were supposed to protect you is disheartening. Kudos to Remedy for being ethical and respecting the artists they work with, at least.

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[bitchesgetriches]

Hi bitches! I work in tech and my company just laid off a lot of people. Luckily my partner and I were not affected, but I am devastated seeing friends and coworkers lose their jobs. I was already feeling burnt out but I can't rationalize taking time off when I'm terrified more layoffs are coming. I feel a lot of survivors guilt too - like it should have been me instead of my smarter coworkers. I've only been in the workforce for a few years and I have no idea how people can keep going on right now.

Do you have any advice on how to handle layoffs? And how to prepare if another round comes through?

Oh honey! The first thing to realize is that this is NOT your fault. You are our perfect angel baby and you have done no wrong.

I want to recommend our Burnout Workshop because frankly, it sounds like you could use it. Click that link to learn more.

Layoffs happen for lots of reasons. It's admirable that you're sad for your former coworkers--that shows your compassion muscles are working. But you're right to not give a shit about the company. You need to look out for yourself right now, NOT their bottom line nor even changing your performance so you'll be "safe" from layoffs.

Instead, take these layoffs as a sign of a sinking ship. Even if the company is doing fine now, do you really want to work for a place that axes your coworkers and leaves you in dread?

Polish your resume and start the process of looking for new work. Take your fate into your own hands and find somewhere that will treat you better.

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[iww-gnv]

Technical artist Farhan Noor’s website, Video Games Layoffs, has been tracking confirmed games industry job cuts since the start of last year. According to the site, an estimated total of 10,500 game industry workers lost their jobs in 2023. At the time of writing, the estimated total for 2024 on the same site currently stands at 3,770.

[rimouskis]

the abject cruelty of mass layoffs always shocks me. so many lives thrown into instant disarray, futures jeopardized, finances compromised, because the overlords' line Must Go Up 🙄 evil little world we live in

[allthecanadianpolitics]

About 30 per cent of newsroom jobs have been cut at a 145-year-old daily newspaper in St. John’s, N.L., following a takeover by Postmedia. Keith Gosse, head of the union representing workers at The Telegram, says staff learned Wednesday that four of the paper’s 13 newsroom positions will be eliminated. As well, Saturday will be the paper’s last daily print edition, as it is moving to a weekly print version beginning next week with daily news online. Gosse says there were more than 40 people working in the newsroom when he first started at The Telegram in 1986.

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[clearpathscounseling]

People need jobs and jobs need people!

[pollen]

i just need the job that i was laid off from and everything would be fine. a simple give me my job back would fix me

[wolfleblack]

Eidos Montreal becomes the latest victim of Embracer, and has resulted in the Deus Ex game being canned

Eidos Montreal has confirmed that it has laid off 97 members of total staff which was reported to be around 481 strong in November of 2022. “For the last 17 years, our teams at Eidos have worked on some of the most beloved brands in the industry, combining deep storytelling and innovation into unique games,” the studio said in an official statement on social media. “We have created memorable…

[axolotlelle]

sweating in game dev layoffs