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"Redundancy order criteria are another channel through which this is achieved. The criteria help very little in differentiating between employees outside of the very subjective « professional qualities » one. To compensate for this massacre and keep on running with production on a game that, to this day, didn’t cut down on its scope and is keeping around a hundred persons busy, management is betting it all on outsourcing. Managers, who are usually seen as more competent and experienced than non-managers, are kept within the organization and studio management expects them to orchestrate the massive shift to outsourcing as well as take over the workload of the fired team members. Anyone with a little experience with video games production and sanity understands how out-of-touch such a plan is. The costs of outsourcing a project that was mostly internal up until now and the loss of the experience gained all throughout production seem to have been ignored in favour of short-term penny-pinching with unclear upsides.

This company has been driven into a wall for years, against all outsider wisdom, against any sort of reality-based assessment. For 2 years, employees have been living on the edge, in uncertainty and anxiety, all of it reinforced by internal comms that alternated between inexistance and outright lies. This impacted their health, as evidenced by the CSE who documented 6 workplace accidents in 2026 and recently had to launch an inquiry into a serious and imminent danger."