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IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell (aftermath.site)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Welp, this didn't take long.

It's especially interesting that they laid off a lot of people who were the only ones in their particular job, leaving entire jobs uncovered. I suspect this comes right before shutting them entirely or doing it all "with AI" 🤮.

Sad in particular about Alice Bell. She was fantastic, and it always felt like she kept the site going through all the shit of recent years. Plus being the driving force behind their podcast (the Electronic Wireless Show) of course also spells doom for that one though I hope that like Indiescovery they go rogue and run it independent of the site.

Bleak times. Fuck IGN.

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[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Redundancy means that they get paid for being made to leave the company. That terminology is used because it's different from being fired.

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

It's basically just British terminology for layoffs with a severance package.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It amounts to the same thing, though. Whether you got a few months pay to carry you through or not you still lost your income, and there's no guarantee you'll ever find a job that matches it in pay, benefits, etc.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Read the guys comment again though. They say their issue is with calling them "redundancies" in a language sense. But it's not sugar coating it or anything, that's the legitimate term for what happened.