Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses
Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses
Unity has released its financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2023, announcing layoffs despite a si…
Well duh, you always (short term) make more money (short term) when you're paying fewer employees (short term)! And those (short term) gains will look really good in the future ex-CEO's resume (and bank account)!
I remember back in all the "controversy" somebody pointed out they have about 5,000 employees. Which is an insane number of employees for a company of their size, so I guess they possibly are making a profit by firing unnecessary stuff?
Looks like from the article they still are losing 125 million dollars net a year. They're moving towards profitability though, so I'd think these layoffs wouldn't be necessary? I guess that depends how urgently their investors are requiring their money back.
do investors base their requirements for money on logical criteria or is just 'more this year than last year'? It seems to me that publicly traded companies led by investors act like children failing the marshmellow test
"I don't know anything about this but I can conclude they are all dumb"
Not trying to defend in the least bit Unity after their runtime fee debacle, but maybe this is a good first step towards realizing how they can provide their products without screwing over their customers.
I get layoffs suck, but sometimes, companies get a bit bloated out of eagerness to provide a bunch of services and products and need to tone it down a bit.
Hey I work for Unity, I don't speak for them and have a limited scope of what I can talk about. Imo (no evidence, just feels), this has nothing to do with the customers or saving face. Between 2019 and 2022 Unity went from 2700 to 7700 employees. I think they bit off more than they could chew both hiring people and buying companies, COVID money is drying up across tech, and they're trying to slam the workforce back inline with pre COVID levels.
This will fuck customers so hard. We've had two layoffs already. Morale is shot, this is making it worse, some of the best workers are leaving for more stable work because of it so there is a very real brain drain going on. My department already lost some of our most valuable people in the last few months, we are seriously limited on replacement hires, and the work they did is getting slapped on to the shoulders of like 6 of us as just more work same pay. This is going to happen to every single department in a layoff this big and large chunks of Unity will crumple because of it.
I will say that I actually like this CEO (as much as someone can like a CEO he's still a rich POS don't get me wrong). He talks to us like humans and was very up front about layoffs. JR was an indescribably huge dick who never even pretended to be human and both the previous layoffs was like "nah we're not going to fire anyone" the week before firing people. So I think there is potential for him to help turn things around eventually but right now the company is in free fall and the product will be noticably set back.