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On July 26, 2024, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) initiated a labor strike involving the union’s voice actors and motion capture artists against American video game companies signed to the union’s Interactive Media Agreements over failed renegotiation terms of the contract that had expired in November 2022.
Department of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has also faced significant cuts -- including to the U.S. Forest Service, which manages wildfire response and prevention.
Layoffs.fyi, a website that dutifully tracks job cutting, shows that 263,000 tech employees were cut in 2023 alone. Only 11 days into 2024, there have been 24 tech companies that have laid off a ...
Jen Glennon resigned her position as editor in March 2024, citing an opposition to G/O Media's desire for the site to deprioritize news and instead focus on producing game guides. [31] In July 2024, it was reported that Kotaku Australia would shut down as part of a cost-cutting effort from third-party publisher Pedestrian Group. [32]
Some media outlets compared the 2023-2024 layoffs to the video game crash of 1983, when the US video game market collapsed due to an oversaturation of poorly made, low-quality games, causing the video game industry to enter a recession for two years. This has sparked discussions about a potential "second video game crash."
The media and entertainment industry's reckoning will continue in 2024 with more layoffs underway. Media layoffs: Google, Paramount, Disney, and others commit to job cuts in 2024 [Video] Skip to ...
Amazon's layoffs over the last several years amount to more than 27,000 cuts. The latest round underscores the financial pullback, especially in contrast to massive spending during peak COVID.
Last year was catastrophic for employees in some industries. Companies planned 721,677 job cuts, a 98% leap from 2022, according to a report from professional outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &...