Unity lays off hundreds of employees in “resource realignment”
nme.comUnity has laid off approximately 200 workers as they “realign some of [their] resources.”Unity is one of the most used game engines in the industry.
While Epic Games and its Unreal Engine tend to cater to larger developers, Unity targets the indie market. The company behind the engine employed up to 3,300 employees when it went public in June 2020.
However, since going public Unity’s stock price has been plummeting, already down 70 per cent this year alone.As reported by Kotaku, two weeks ago Unity CEO John Riccitello assured employees that there would be no layoffs during an all-hands meeting.
It would appear that this wasn’t the case as Unity has now laid off four per cent of its workforce, which amounts to approximately 200 workers.In a statement given to Protocol, Unity had the following to say: “As part of a continued planning process where we regularly assess our resourcing levels against our company priorities, we decided to realign some of our resources to better drive focus and support our long-term growth.
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