Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of workers in latest round of cuts

Electronic Arts, the planetary video crippled company, is slashing its workforce again.

The company, based successful Redwood City, Calif., has eliminated respective 100 positions, including astir 100 jobs astatine Respawn, a video crippled improvement workplace based successful Los Angeles.

“As portion of our continued absorption connected our semipermanent strategical priorities, we’ve made prime changes wrong our enactment that much efficaciously aligns teams and allocates resources successful work of driving aboriginal growth,” said Justin Higgs, a spokesperson for Electronic Arts, successful a statement.

The company, which has a ample bureau successful Marina del Rey, is helping employees research caller roles internally and providing enactment to affected workers, helium added.

Bloomberg archetypal reported the cuts, saying they affected betwixt 300 and 400 people, citing a idiosyncratic acquainted with the cuts.

The layoffs are the latest to deed Electronic Arts, which had astir 13,700 employees arsenic of March 2024.

The institution successful 2024 said it would chopped astir 5% of its workforce aft announcing a akin chopped a twelvemonth earlier.

Electronic Arts has offices successful California but besides has workers crossed Europe and Asia. Respawn, the workplace down fashionable games “Apex Legends” and “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order,” has a large beingness successful Los Angeles but besides opened studios successful Canada and Wisconsin.

Respawn canceled the improvement of a “Titanfall” crippled that wasn’t adjacent to being released, Bloomberg reported. The Titanfall franchise includes a bid of first-person shooter games.

The institution said successful a connection this week connected societal media that it “made the determination to measurement distant from 2 early-stage incubation projects and marque immoderate targeted squad adjustments crossed Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi.”

“These decisions are not easy, and we are profoundly grateful to each teammate affected,” Respawn said successful the statement.