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Skydance Games Reorganizes, With Workers Left Out of the Growth Plan
· New York time
Skydance Games has laid off a number of staff members as the division undergoes reorganization and operational changes following the merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The cuts make it the latest division to be slimmed down and restructured after the deal, Deadline reported. The company framed the changes as part of an effort to position Skydance Games for long-term growth and success. That is an ambitious destination for a plan that begins by leaving some of the people who make games outside the organization. The report does not specify the number of staff affected. For game creators, a corporate merger can reach far beyond the paperwork that announces it. Changes in staffing affect the people doing development work as well as the teams that remain to carry projects forward. For the wider entertainment business, the cuts illustrate how the promise of a larger combined operation can arrive alongside a smaller workforce in an individual division. The language of reorganization tends to make the process sound like a furniture plan: move a department here, adjust an operation there. Employees encounter the less abstract version. A company can describe the destination as growth while the immediate change is fewer colleagues at the desks.
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