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In early 2012, prior to the release of Mists of Pandaria and Diablo III, Blizzard Entertainment (or ATVI) made the decision to lay off 600 employees around the globe. Mostly but not exclusively in support roles.

Subscribers for WoW had dropped to ~10 million in 2011 (-2 million) and better tech & tools made a lot of the people supporting players around the globe... redundant.

My team (~300 people) in Versailles, France 🇫🇷 was not (!) affected, likely due to significantly stronger employment laws than in our other office in Europe, which was based in Ireland.

It was and still is the worst period in my almost 30 years as a professional and I still become anxious whenever I see headlines or layoffs in the news.

The way how people were let go across locations couldn't have been more different back then:

In the US people were literally let go on the spot while in Ireland the redundancy was announced and the company started to look for volunteers who would be offered a relatively generous package based on tenure in the company.

As a middle manager I was informed about the plan about a week or so early. My spouse was part of the work council (elected representative for staff) in the same company, so going home every day that week was... weird. To say the least. I couldn't talk about what was going on to anyone.

On the day of the announcement most senior leadership had traveled to Ireland and I was the one left to inform the team in France. It sucked.

What followed over months and years afterwards was survivors guilt and the big question: when will it be us?

This moment among other things ultimately led me to looking for alternatives and ending up with Supercell in January 2015.

A few years later Blizzard first moved the European HQ to the Netherlands (I assume for tax optimization), then closed both the Versailles and The Hague offices, which led to ~400 people being out of job.

I'm really sorry for my former colleagues that are affected by this new wave.

Is there a learning in all of this?

Publicly listed companies are by definition profit driven. That's why shareholders invest and optimizations towards this goal will never stop. This is true for ALL for-profit companies, but maybe not quite as cutthroat as in US companies that are listed on the stock markets, which is a mix of minimal employee protections and short term profit optimizations.

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