Blizzard Cleans House by Letting Go of 600 Employees
"Constant evaluation of teams and processes is necessary for the long-term health of any business," states Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Over the last several years, we've grown our organization tremendously and made large investments in our infrastructure in order to better serve our global community."
"However, as Blizzard and the industry have evolved we've also had to make some difficult decisions in order to address the changing needs of our company," he adds. "Knowing that, it still does not make letting go of some of our team members any easier. We're grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the people impacted by today's announcement, we're proud of the contributions they made here at Blizzard, and we wish them well as they move forward."
The company states that the World of Warcraft development team will not be impacted by the layoffs, nor will the current development and publishing schedules be impacted. Specific release plans for Diablo 3 will be made in the near future while the studio continues to "drive aggressively" toward beta testing for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard DOTA, and StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.
"Blizzard also remains committed to maintaining its high standards of quality for customer service delivery," the company states in its press release. "In addition, Blizzard is still recruiting and looking to hire qualified developers for a number of open positions."
Further details concerning open positions at Blizzard are available at http://jobs.blizzard.com.
I love this. The greed of corporate companies! It is a BUSINESS, not a charity. If the employees are not needed they do not need to keep them. Even if the employees are needed they do not have to keep them. It has absolutely nothing to do with greed. I will never understand the mentality of some people. I would hazard to guess you have never ran a company.
I also love when people have absolutely no understanding of greed. You do understand that the sky is not the limit when discussing economics? Eventually, it crashes - and you can only profit so much, before having to make so many cuts, it starts hurting everyone around you.
Problem with capitalism....people only look at money and profits - literally ignoring everything else. Year, after year, has to be better and bigger. How long can you keep it up?
These people love money and possessions over everything else - let's be real, if you were dying of cancer, they'd rather see you rot, than use a spare million in their account full of billions. They'd also rather see the collapse of the entire world, before they let anything from their self-entitled asses go.
Business. Job creators. Blah, blah.
It's sad really - we don't live to live - we live to work, and be slaves to a made up system, where nothing really means anything, other than a few get to live to live, while the rest work for them.
I love this. The greed of corporate companies! It is a BUSINESS, not a charity. If the employees are not needed they do not need to keep them. Even if the employees are needed they do not have to keep them. It has absolutely nothing to do with greed. I will never understand the mentality of some people. I would hazard to guess you have never ran a company.
What was it last year $3.95 billion in profits? Ohh dear no where near enough to keep 600 jobs. sigh....
If a compnay is losing money,No prob company needs to make some sacrifices,If it is still turning over a big profit make no mistake IT IS F%$&ING GREEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
With your atrocious grasp of basic English I wouldn't hire you.
Blizzard has lost quite a lot of subscribers which means less profit. No need for all the extra people providing support, either directly or indirectly.
For all we know it could have been a few hundred administration staff who were there to carry out basic tasks that have been reassigned to others. They may have drawn the short straw when it came to deciding who got the boot. However in the end the business is there to make money. If they are employing staff that they don't really need to then it's obvious that they will start getting rid of people.
I also love when people have absolutely no understanding of greed. You do understand that the sky is not the limit when discussing economics? Eventually, it crashes - and you can only profit so much, before having to make so many cuts, it starts hurting everyone around you.
Problem with capitalism....people only look at money and profits - literally ignoring everything else. Year, after year, has to be better and bigger. How long can you keep it up?
These people love money and possessions over everything else - let's be real, if you were dying of cancer, they'd rather see you rot, than use a spare million in their account full of billions. They'd also rather see the collapse of the entire world, before they let anything from their self-entitled asses go.
Business. Job creators. Blah, blah.
It's sad really - we don't live to live - we live to work, and be slaves to a made up system, where nothing really means anything, other than a few get to live to live, while the rest work for them.
Lulzier than you'd think.
If they got fired then ask why they werent more valuable. Go back to school get some real skills. Give a man a fish he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish he eats forever. Even if those people who got laid off have degrees it wont be long before they find work again.
As far as loyalty is concern it works both ways. If another company came along and paid you more and gave you less work you mean to tell me you would not work for the new company? Regardless of how much a business makes, why on earth would they continue to pay for workers they dont need. They should be thankful they had a job as long as they did if they were that disposable.
I grew up poor, with most of my clothing from the salvation army. I told myself I wanted a better life for me and my parents. Went to school and made something of myself.
But you go ahead and bitch about how crappy your company is and how they arent paying you enough. Yet you have time to post on this forum rather than educate yourself and make more money.
There is no such thing as too old to go back to school. You might have a more difficult time. Sure. You might have to budget you time more. Ok. So what. No one said it was going to be easy. Anything in life worth doing isnt going to be easy.