Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch is ready to put off roughly 500 staff this week, or 35% of its whole workforce, Bloomberg broke in a report on Tuesday.
In accordance with Bloomberg’s Cecilia D’Anastasio, Twitch might announce the layoffs as quickly as tomorrow. The information comes only a day after recreation engine developer Unity introduced it is shedding 25% of its staff in a “firm reset,” and follows a yr of enormous scale layoffs throughout the video games and tech sectors which have affected tens of 1000’s of staff.
Twitch’s guardian firm laid off 180 staff from Amazon Video games in November, a comparatively small quantity in comparison with the 27,000 staff it minimize earlier in 2023. That mass layoff additionally dramatically impacted Twitch to the tune of 400 staff in March 2023, simply after longtime CEO Emmett Shear departed the corporate after 16 years. The layoffs have not been the one signal of hassle for Twitch: the platform only in the near past determined to drag out of South Korea over excessive community charges that pressured it to function within the nation at a loss.
If the layoffs match Bloomberg’s reporting, they’ll go away Twitch with roughly 930 staff, or half the workforce it had this time final yr.