There will be no more remote work—or at least very limited opportunities—for Ubisoft employees moving forward. Instead, Ubisoft employees will be required to be in office on a full time basis.
On Wednesday, the French-based publisher announced major restructuring plans that including a number of games, including Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, being canceled. While the announcement also spoke about plans to focus more on Games-As-A-Service (GAAS) and open world experiences, they also revealed a policy change that will impact all employees within the company.
Ubisoft Wants All Employees In The Office
According to the official press release, Ubisoft will return to a full five days on site “for all teams”. Staff will then receive an “annual allowance of working-from-home days.”
“This evolution is intended to strengthen collaboration, including constant knowledge sharing, and the collective dynamic across teams,” they said “In-person collaboration is a key enabler of collective efficiency, creativity and success in a persistently more selective AAA market.”
SVP of Studio Operations Marie Sophie de Waubert told GamesIndustry.biz that the company is still working with “a hybrid model, but spread differently”.
After the news broke, one source reached out to Insider Gaming’s Mike Straw to say that they’d expect the eventual layoffs to be “in the hundreds”. During its conference call to discuss the moves, Ubisoft wouldn’t discuss how many more layoffs would be coming as part of this restructure within the company.
Recently, the company has held layoffs at its Massive Entertainment as well as at Ubisoft Abu Dhabi, the closure of Ubisoft Halifax, and more.
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Funny how the only people you ever hear putting a positive spin on in-office work are from those who have private offices with a door they can close. If all the collaboration from being in-office is so amazing, why don’t you move your desk out to be among the collaboration yourself? Too distracting? Yeah, I thought so.
They weren’t already? Crazy 6 years later.