Driver Dev Ubisoft Reflections Undergoes Restructuring Amid Layoffs
by November 29, 2010 @ 12:43 pm
Driver: San Francisco dev Ubisoft Reflections may see as many as 19 jobs axed as part of an ongoing restructuring effort, according to a Develop report. Sources say the redundancies could affect a number of key staffers, including those who have been with the studio for the better part of a decade.
While the effort is wholly aimed at terminating redundant jobs, not the employees themselves, a Ubisoft rep confirms that some folks may unfortunately be let go in the shuffle:
This is a proposal for reorganisation, and it isn’t the people who are made redundant, but the jobs themselves. The people get to have their say about the reorganisation.
Overall, this may result in redundancies effecting up to a dozen studio team members. When we are in a heavy production time, as we are with Driver, there are a lot of contract workers, and I do believe about seven workers will not have their contracts renewed.
Further, the rep told Develop that Ubisoft Montréal is collaborating with Reflections as an “associate studio” on the Driver project, which was hit with a second delay earlier this month that reaches into the company’s 2011-12 fiscal lineup.
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