Earlier this yr, Ubisoft unions known as for a strike towards the online game writer, and it is occurring proper now. Over 1,200 Ubisoft workers have walked out on their jobs in protest over the corporate’s current restructuring, its plans for future layoffs, and a current return-to-office mandate.
5 Ubisoft unions–STJV, Solidaires Informatique, CGT, CFE-CGC, and Printemps Ecologique–are participating within the strike, which is primarily going down in France. Nevertheless, the three-day strike can also be impacting employees at Ubisoft Milan.
In January, the unions known as for Yves Guillemot to resign from his place as Ubisoft’s CEO.
“At this stage, it appears clear to us that Yves Guillemot has no information or understanding of his firm or its workers,” Solidaires Informatique spokesman Marc Rutschlé mentioned in an announcement to GamesIndustry.biz. “The corporate is continuous its value discount and layoff plan. Our groups are already working below strain, typically understaffed. After a number of years with out pay rises (or very small will increase), we perceive that when once more, workers won’t obtain a elevate this yr.”
As a part of the restructuring, six video games had been canceled by Ubisoft, together with the deliberate remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. A current Ubisoft inside townhall assembly reportedly did little to handle worker’s considerations. Close to the start of February, Ubisoft Montreal veteran David Michaud-Cromp disclosed that Ubisoft terminated him after he spoke out towards the return-to-office mandate.