More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, just three weeks before Christmas

I used to work in HR at one of the largest employers in my country. Layoffs, work force adjustments, rescinding of telework, negative things in general are purposefully picked to be given on Fridays or before holidays.

The theory is that by doing so, you minimize risk to the company. If they commit suicide, they do so on the weekend or during the holidays, off of work time and not close enough that a judge would deem it on work time.

Secondly, weekends or just before the holidays supposedly allows employees to seek out support to potentially avoid a risk to the company (like I mentioned above).

Thirdly, weekends or just before the holidays allows a period of time for supposed emotional cooling, which lowers risks to the company of the employee sabotaging their work, undermining anything, or creating security incidents.

That's why piracy is not an issue...

You are not supporting the devs, they get laid off generally as the game is released because who wants to pay for dead weight 🤡

Yeah, I've seen headlines like this pop up for the past few years near Christmas. I think companies just want to cheat their devs out of Christmas bonuses.

Labor is so devalued right now.