In response to a report from Insider Gaming, the Apex Legends high quality assurance (QA) UK group is being solely shutdown, with 40 contract builders impacted.
EA has beforehand made cuts to particularly the QA group round Apex Legends, a selection that continues to confuse gamers, particularly after Respawn is at the moment recovering from a large concern 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 group for Apex Legends has taken a success. Final 12 months EA lower over 200 folks from the Apex Legends QA group. This time it’s one other 40.
The report additionally stipulates that these layoffs are usually not a part of the large restructuring that EA introduced at first of this 12 months, which resulted in 670 folks being laid off.
That layoff did additionally impression the Apex Legends group, nevertheless it looks like this shutdown provides one other 40 folks to the listing of these laid off by EA.
Workers 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 explanation for the layoff, moderately than efficiency, in accordance with the report.
The report additionally clarifies that this layoff got here to the shock of even group 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 accordance with a supply of Insider’s, “Every little thing appeared to be heading to a standard renewal able to sort out the subsequent 12 months 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 ft.
Supply – [Insider Gaming]