Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is laying off 41 members of staff, some 5% of its total workforce. It claims that the redundancies are intended to "increase operational efficiency and reduce costs".
SOE recently celebrated the success of its 3D virtual world Free Realms, and claims that its online games franchise is still thriving. However, Sony warned in December that it would cut 8,000 full-time jobs and 8,000 part-timers by 2010 in response to the global economic crisis.
SOE has not revealed which game titles and projects will be affected by the reorganisation, saying the layoffs are "company wide, from a variety of departments."
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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