A year after laying off 25% of its workforce in what it called "," engine maker Unity has reportedly put even more people out of work. The layoffs were reported by multiple Unity employees on LinkedIn (via ) and while the number of people let go is currently unknown, a post on the says the entire team responsible for , a tool used to develop and control the behaviors of NPCs in videogames, has been let go.
The latest round of layoffs at Unity seem to have come as a surprise to at least some impacted employees: One wrote in LinkedIn that the cuts were "," while another wrote that he "didn't expect it to happen ." A third employee said [[link]] he was notified of the layoffs by "a from 'noreply@unity' informing me that my role was being 'eliminated' and that I’d lose system access by the end of the day."
Unity is a popular and widely used game engine, but the past few years have not been good for the company or the people who work for it. It's closed offices and laid off hundreds of employees in multiple rounds of cuts, all while self-inflicting wounds by calling developers who don't focus on monetization "" and imposing a in 2023. The blowback was fierce enough that then-CEO John Riccitiello (yes, the former EA guy) in October 2023, but just a month later interim CEO James M. Whitehurst said Unity needed to be "," and sure enough deeper cuts followed in January 2024, when 25% of the company's workforce—roughly 1,800 people—were let go.
"Historically, we’ve engaged in extended debates about what our focus would be, which would prevent crisp decision making and limit release velocity," Bromberg wrote. "We also added people and created operating structures that [[link]] were meant to speed us up, only to find they were slowing us down."
Going forward, Unity will "Optimize around 'fidelity for ubiquity'," Bromberg wrote, which he said means that "while we’ll always try to enable the best quality graphics we can, our primary directive is to help customers reach the widest possible audience across platforms and devices." Unity [[link]] will also "invest in industry, live services, and AI," which is presumably a continuation of ongoing efforts: Unity announced plans to incorporate AI into its tools in June 2023, another maneuver that with everyone.
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