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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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[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 5 points 1 year ago (5 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.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SMT42@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year 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

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