Team17 has confirmed that will probably be commencing an organization restructure that can doubtless lead to a number of job losses. In addition, it has additionally introduced an ‘amicable’ cut up with CEO Michael Pattison. This comes following latest reviews of important layoffs at Epic Games.
As reported by Eurogamer and VG247, Team17 has begun a ‘interval of session’ throughout which a big variety of redundancies are prone to be made. It confirmed the departure of Michael Pattison in a press release to VG247:
“In response to the reviews regarding the departure of Michael Pattison from Team17, we are able to affirm we’ve amicably parted methods with Michael. We may affirm that we’ve sadly entered right into a interval of session in the present day inside Team17 Digital, with Astragon and Storytoys remaining unaffected by the restructuring plans.”
As for the job losses themselves, it is thought that this may occasionally have an effect on the Internal QA (Quality Assurance) crew essentially the most, with as much as 50 roles in danger. Staff have been apparently knowledgeable of the upcoming restructuring in an emergency city corridor assembly, with the session interval lasting from now till November.
Michael Pattison joined Team17 in October 2021 after beforehand working on the likes of PlayStation and Capcom. Since then, Team17 had come beneath fireplace for its ‘MetaWorms’ NFT venture earlier than a damning report emerged of the agency’s working atmosphere and enterprise practices.
