Ubisoft Follows Last Week's Game Cancelations and Studio Closures With a Proposed Reduction of 200 More Jobs at its Paris Headquarters

Just a week aft announcing the cancelation of six games, the closure of 2 studios and further occupation losses astatine different 3 locations, Ubisoft is present aiming its cost-reduction inaugural astatine unit moving wrong its Paris headquarters.

Ubisoft has projected the nonaccomplishment of up to 200 jobs wrong the French capital, wherever it presently employs astir 1100 people. This process volition beryllium organized nether the voluntary Rupture Conventionnelle Collective (RCC) process, wherever unit tin hold to signifier a collective, voluntary communal termination agreement.

"In enactment with past week's announcements connected its caller operating exemplary and the acceleration of cost-reduction initiatives, Ubisoft International has initiated discussions regarding a imaginable Rupture Conventionnelle Collective, a collective, voluntary communal termination statement that could impact up to 200 positions astatine its office successful France," a Ubisoft spokesperson told IGN today.

Ubisoft's Paris headquarters. Image credit: IGN

"At this stage, this remains a proposal, and nary determination volition beryllium last until a corporate statement is reached with worker representatives and validated by French authorities. The connection applies exclusively to Ubisoft International employees nether French contracts and has nary interaction connected different French entities oregon Ubisoft teams worldwide."

While the RCC process has to beryllium voluntary and has to beryllium based connected presumption agreed by employees and commercialized unions, there's nary connection contiguous connected adjacent steps if the institution does not execute the simplification successful headcount it is expecting done this scheme.

Ubisoft's Parisian offices person antecedently been the show of protests against the company's erstwhile return-to-office stipulations. Last week, Ubisoft said its institution reorganization would besides reintroduce five-day bureau enactment arsenic modular (albeit with an yearly excavation of distant moving days). Still, IGN understands the determination to suggest an RCC to its Parisian workers was made immoderate clip ago, earlier the five-day mandate was decided.

Last week, Ubisoft said it was wholly shuttering its Stockholm workplace that antecedently collaborated connected Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, alongside mobile workplace Ubisoft Halifax. "Restructurings" person besides taken spot astatine Ubisoft offices successful Abu Dhabi, astatine Trials workplace RedLynx and astatine Massive, location to The Division.

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. Today, an histrion believed to person been moving connected the remake said that she had mislaid 3 years' worthy of enactment and discovered her task had been canceled aft speechmaking astir Ubisoft's daze determination online.

Ubisoft simultaneously 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. Ubisoft's banal plunged by 40% pursuing the announcement, and present sits 95% down connected its January 2021 peak.

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