In keeping with a report from Insider Gaming, the Apex Legends high quality assurance (QA) UK crew is being solely shutdown, with 40 contract builders impacted.
EA has beforehand made cuts to particularly the QA crew round Apex Legends, a alternative that continues to confuse gamers, particularly after Respawn is presently recovering from a large problem that noticed gamers lose all of their bought and earned in-game objects and progress markers simply final week.
This isn’t the primary time that particularly the QA crew for Apex Legends has taken successful. Final yr EA reduce over 200 individuals from the Apex Legends QA crew. This time it’s one other 40.
The report additionally stipulates that these layoffs should not a part of the large restructuring that EA introduced originally of this yr, which resulted in 670 individuals being laid off.
That layoff did additionally affect the Apex Legends crew, however it looks as if this shutdown provides one other 40 individuals to the listing of these laid off by EA.
Staff had been notified that their contracts wouldn’t be renewed throughout a mass Zoom name, the place it administration cited “restructuring of the enterprise” as the rationale for the layoff, somewhat than efficiency, in response to the report.
The report additionally clarifies that this layoff got here to the shock of even crew leads, who didn’t discover out till those that reported to them made them conscious of the layoff.
These 40 QA contractors had been solely weeks away from ending their contracts, and in response to a supply of Insider’s, “Every part appeared to be heading to a standard renewal able to deal with the following yr of plans for Apex.”
It’s as soon as once more unlucky to see extra builders blindsided by layoffs, and hopefully these impacted will be capable to land on their toes.
Supply – [Insider Gaming]
