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Unity Software to lay off 1,800 employees, or 25% of staff (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by askat@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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Unity Software said Monday that it would lay off about 1,800 employees, or 25% of its overall workforce, as part of a corporate restructuring plan.
The company said it is unable to “reasonably estimate the costs and charges in connection with this reduction, which it expects will be substantially incurred in the first quarter of 2024.”
In October, John Riccitiello retired as Unity’s CEO, while former Red Hat CEO James Whitehurst became interim CEO.

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[–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not all 2300 worked full time on godot tho. Most contributors either want to add a feature and leave, or bugfix and then leave. But those 7700 unity employees sounds like full time or at least part timer to me.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The 7700 wouldn't all be in roles that directly contribute to the codebase, either.

[–] colorado@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It is mind boggling to me how "high touch" business to business sales is like who do you need a dedicated account representative for every customer?

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

There is more to sales than just the initial contract. Each account has a CLV and its the job of the revenue teams to not only figure out what this is, but then funnel customers through the various stages of post-sales business development, product adoption growth, churn mitigation strategies...etc. to not only meet this but extend it. Sales and revenue are not just a one and done operation. When done correctly you essentially have a farming model vs a hunting one (this can be further refined with things like ICPs, funnel feedbacks...etc), but this often requires some level of continuous account touch points to maintain (gotta water the plants, keep them free of weeds, put down new fertilizer when appropriate, ensure there are no pests causing problems, weather proof the enclosure as much as possible...etc, you get the idea).

That being said though, a lot of businesses are still operating on the pre 2022 growth models or are just now catching up and trying to shift to a more sensible revenue based model, and that is leading to sheding of numbers in an (often misguided imo) attempt to not go under.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

7690 middle managers and 10 devs

[–] derfl007@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Exactly. And the unity engine is not the only product that unity makes. They have a full cloud platform with DevOps tools, Game Services like Matchmaking, Leaderboards, Ads, etc. and many more things.

Nonetheless, what the Godot Team + Community is creating as a FOSS product is absolutely amazing and i would say it's well on its way to becoming the Blender of game engines