Ubisoft Layoffs Continue With 55 Staff at The Division Studio Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm Now Impacted

Ubisoft has contiguous announced that it expects 55 jobs to impacted arsenic portion of further cost-cutting, present astatine The Division workplace Massive and chap Swedish outfit Ubisoft Stockholm.

The apt occupation losses travel an earlier voluntary redundancy strategy that did not execute arsenic galore leavers arsenic indispensable for Ubisoft's plans to trim headcount, IGN understands.

"Earlier today, we informed each employees successful our Swedish studios (Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm) astir a projected organizational restructure that whitethorn impact astir 55 roles crossed Malmö and Stockholm," Ubisoft said successful a connection passed to IGN today.

"This restructure follows the completion of the Voluntary Leave Program launched during the autumn of 2025, a finalized semipermanent roadmap, and a completed staffing and assignment process, which unneurotic person provided clearer visibility into the operation and capableness required to enactment the 2 studios’ enactment and sustainably implicit time.

"These projected changes are forward-looking and structural, they are not related to idiosyncratic performance, caller deliveries, oregon the prime of the enactment produced by the teams.

"The semipermanent absorption for the studios remains unchanged, and we volition proceed to service arsenic the planetary location and pb for to The Division franchise, determination guardant with an unannounced innovative tech project with a refined squad setup, and play a cardinal relation successful the improvement of Snowdrop and Ubisoft Connect.

"The projected restructuring volition statesman with a absorption connected idiosyncratic agreements and impacted employees are being informed straight and supported with attraction and respect inline with section regulations."

IGN understands that improvement connected The Division franchise volition inactive proceed arsenic a substance of priority, with enactment underway connected Tom Clancy's The Division 3, arsenic good arsenic continued updates for The Division 2 and under-wraps extraction task The Division 2: Survivors.

Massive is besides location to the squad down The Division franchise's Snowdrop engine, besides utilized successful Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and is besides conducting aboriginal enactment connected a mysterious abstracted crippled task focused connected innovation and technology.

Last week, Ubisoft announced the closure of its Canadian mobile crippled workplace Ubisoft Halifax, with the nonaccomplishment of 71 jobs. Ubisoft said the determination was portion of its wider two-year effort company-wide to "streamline operations, amended efficiency, and trim costs," and was unrelated to the information that 61 of its 71 workers had conscionable successfully voted to unionize.

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