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The few junior jobs available are fiercely competed for; XR Games advertised for four junior positions in 2024 and received 18,000 applications. [188] Grads in Games, a major route into the industry for juniors in the UK, was placed on hiatus in 2024 due to the lack of entry level hiring.
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.
Towards the end of 2023 and continuing into 2024, the video game industry saw a large number of layoffs, with over 10,000 jobs lost in 2023 and at least 8,000 in 2024 by February 2024. While other factors contributed to the layoffs, such as previous acquisitions and mergers that came after 2021, the return to normalcy after COVID changed the ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2023, companies planned 721,677 job cuts, a 98% jump from 2022, according to a new report from professional outplacement firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas. The number marks the highest ...
2023 saw more layoffs than previous years, with 240,000 jobs cut in the tech industry alone -- a 50% jump from the prior year, according to data from TechCrunch.com. A number of factors led to ...
It seems the 2024 layoffs may be a continuation of layoffs in 2023. It depends on how sources describe it, but it may be worth expanding the scope to extend from 2023-2024 if sources consider it one event. Game industry layoffs may be a part of broader tech sector layoffs. I read some articles that described it as such. Consider exploring that ...