- Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says more layoffs are expected moving forward as the company adapts.
- Restructuring and voluntary departures will help the publisher fix post-pandemic struggles.
- The executives want to build a more focused and agile company with stronger teams.
Ubisoft began 2026 with a massive reorganization that divided the company into creative houses. These houses are focused on specific ‘billion-dollar’ franchises to pull the publisher out of the red. However, much more resizing is still expected in the future.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot bluntly states that future layoffs are a huge part of the $200 million cost reductions. This resizing and voluntary departures are essential to achieving ‘disciplined workforce management’ as part of the publisher’s long-term goals.
Why it matters: Despite the recent revamp, Ubisoft has a long way to go before it sheds enough weight. Therefore, a lot more trouble is expected for the current developers.
In an interview with Variety, Yves explains that Ubisoft will carefully control recruitment for placements and new roles to ensure that old mistakes are not repeated. The publisher wants to become a more focused and agile company.
The €200 million in additional cost reductions will include selective restructuring across the company. That said, our primary focus for aligning the organization with our long-term goals remains disciplined workforce management.
He explains that, in addition to layoffs, optimizing Ubisoft involves reducing certain expenses, adjusting or stopping projects where necessary, improving production processes, and using tools more effectively.
Our priority today is to build a more focused, agile company, with stronger teams that strike the right balance between senior expertise and young talent.
This new strategy will go into effect to fix Ubisoft’s post-COVID struggles, which saw it anticipate sustained demand that never really materialized amid fast industry growth. Therefore, a focus on more projects and increased complexity failed to pay off.
These controversial measures are also fueling Ubisoft unions, which demand that the CEO resign as developers grow hopeless.
The Assassin’s Creed maker has already proposed 200 job cuts at Ubisoft Paris, and a new round of cost-cutting could see over 2000 developers fired across its many studios.
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