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At slightest 1,200 Ubisoft unit person gone connected onslaught this week, arsenic portion of a planned protestation implicit the Assassin's Creed maker's caller cost-cutting, workplace closures and enforced return-to-work policy.
Hundreds of employees gathered with banners and flags extracurricular Ubisoft's Paris office — which itself volition beryllium the taxable of unit cuts, with 200 jobs astatine risk. Staff person called for the impending return-to-work mandate to beryllium changed, and to amusement their wide displeasure astatine the changeless bleed of unit and projects.
The numbers of unit connected onslaught were shared with GamesIndustry.biz by the Solidaires Informatique union, which besides confirmed a tiny fig of employees had gone connected onslaught successful Italy, astatine Ubisoft Milan.
One attendee held up a motion stating: "From offices to courts, nary respite for the Guillemots," referencing Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, and presumably the members of his household besides employed wrong the company. Another, who wore a Rabbids disguise to obscure their face, shared a motion that read: "There is wealth successful the coffers of the employers!"
In Milan, employees held up signs including "Shareholders cannot marque games" and "Don't play with our lives." An impromptu disco league besides broke out, with striking unit dancing to chiptunes portion waving banners.
"At this stage, it seems wide to america that Yves Guillemot has nary cognition oregon knowing of his institution oregon its employees," Solidaires Informatique national typical Marc Rutschlé said. "The institution is continuing its outgo simplification and layoff plan. Our teams are already moving nether pressure, often understaffed. After respective years without wage rises (or precise tiny increases), we recognize that erstwhile again, employees volition not person a rise this year."
Ubisoft's Parisian offices person antecedently been the show of protests against the company's erstwhile return-to-office stipulations. Last month, Ubisoft said its institution reorganization would present reintroduce five-day bureau enactment arsenic modular (albeit with an yearly excavation of distant moving days).
The twelvemonth began with Ubisoft announcing the cancelation of six games, the closure of 2 studios and further occupation losses astatine different 3 locations arsenic portion of its sweeping institution reshuffle. Of the fractional twelve games that person present been afloat scrapped, Ubisoft lone publically named 1 — its long-awaited Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake.
The steadfast besides confirmed it had delayed a further 7 games, including an unannounced rubric acceptable for motorboat wrong the adjacent 2 months that is wide expected to beryllium the company's under-wraps Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remaster.
Image credit: Solidaires Informatique
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