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Media Publishing activities Software publishing 58.21 - Publishing of video games
100 - 600 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 August 2016
Employment effect (start)
23 August 2016
Foreseen end date
30 September 2016
Description
Hamburg based Goodgame Studios is set to reduce its workforce, as it moves away from making PC games into mobile and browser based strategy games. Initial announcements of 100 job cuts have been upgraded to 200-600, as the company moves to one campus and shuts down its PC game division. The move affects staff at its Hamburg premises, many recruited from overseas, and all staff hired within the last six months will be automatically let go. The company has seen a decline in its revenues over the last two years, precipitating this move to cut staffing expenditure. The reduction is expected to be completed by the end of September, and several employee assistance mechanisms have been put in place to assist the procedure, including reimbursing expats and a good voluntary redundancy package.
Sources
19 August 2016: abc news
20 August 2016: Times of India
23 August 2016: NDR.de
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Goodgame Studios, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 88379, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88379.
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