EA To Lay Off Employees After All
Three weeks ago, it was reported that EA was going to lay off a significant percentage of their employees. EA denied the rumors, saying that “EA is growing and looking to hire hundreds of people”. Well, this might not come as a shock to you, but turns out EA was lying.
EA will be “restructuring” the company, which will cause an unspecified number of employees to be laid off. It’s part of EA’s CEO John Riccitello’s plan to use social media to help predict the future gaming trends, thanks to data mining. In an interview with NPR.org, he had said that the company’s internal statistics will see a shift from one of eight employees being an engineer to one in two.
It doesn’t appear that this layoff is solely about cutting costs. EA is expecting to grow its numbers of employees by the end of the year, which means that the people being laid off are being laid off because they lack certain skills that EA needs. It’s sad to see people losing their jobs in such a way, but if a company wants to change the way it does business, it needs to be willing to drop the tools it doesn’t need and pick up the tools it does. Here’s hoping that the people who will lose their jobs will find something new soon.
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