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CD Projekt Red announce another batch of layoffs affecting around 100 employeesThat’s around 9% of The Witcher publisher’s workforce
That’s around 9% of The Witcher publisher’s workforce
Image credit:CD Projekt Red
Image credit:CD Projekt Red
CD Projekt Red have announced another batch of layoffs, this time affecting “around 100” employees, or roughly 9% of the company’s total headcount. The redundancies won’t take place immediately, according to CDPR, as some employees won’t lose their jobs until early next year at the latest.
“There’s no easy way to say this, but today we are overstaffed,” said CEO Adam Kiciński in an‘organisational update’posted to the company’s website. “We have talented people on board who are finishing their tasks and — based on current and expected project needs — we already know we don’t have other opportunities for them in the next year,” he continued.
Back in May, the company previously laid off around 29 employees working at The Molasses Flood. CD Projekt Redbought the studio in 2021after their work on The Flame In The Flood and they’re now developing a Witcher spin-off codenamed Project Sirius. Later that same month, another 30 employees who were on the Gwent team lost their jobs after CDPR scaled down support for the card game.
Kiciński’s rhetoric around efficiency echoes other studios’ recent downscaling announcements, which has been a common occurrence this year. Workers atFiraxis,Microsoft,Twitch,Riot Games,Relic,EAand more have all suffered layoffs this year alone.
