Ubisoft introduced a serious overhaul plan immediately, and employees on the online game behemoth will not be speaking it effectively.
The reorganization requires the cancellation of 6 initiatives, the delay of seven others, and maybe most notably for this story, a further price reducing of 200m Euros over the following two years, and they’re implementing “acceleration of price discount initiatives to rightsize the group”, a phrasing that just about all the time means layoffs.
One in all France’s largest unions, Solidares Informatique is looking for a half-day strike at Ubisoft Paris tomorrow morning. Of their put up they name the reorganization plan “disastrous bulletins” citing the cost-cutting plan, cancellation of initiatives, and finish of distant working. Additionally they issued calls for for what they need for the workers:
The tip of the cost-cutting plan,Sustaining and lengthening the teleworking circumstances,First rate pay raises this yr.
They go onto state that that is merely their preliminary response, and that they’re discussing different strikes, presumably for longer intervals or at different Ubisoft studios in France.
It’s out of the query to let a boss run wild and destroy our working circumstances. Maybe we have to remind him that it’s his workers who make the video games.
That is the newest little bit of issue for Ubisoft who’s making an attempt to rebuild following some troublesome fiscal intervals. Solely a pair days in the past former Murderer’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté introduced he was suing Ubisoft for over $1.3m following his ‘constructive dismissal’, which precipitated him to go away the corporate in October of 2025.
That was tied to their group into ‘inventive homes’ which appears to have been partially carried out to get funding in Vantage Studios, which will likely be managing Ubisoft’s largest three IPs: Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six. Ubisoft has additionally just lately closed its Halifax studio after it organized right into a union, and introduced extra layoffs at Large Leisure and Ubisoft Stockholm final week.
