EA Has Reportedly Minimize The Whole Apex Legends QA Staff In The UK

In accordance with a report from Insider Gaming, the Apex Legends high quality assurance (QA) UK workforce is being solely shutdown, with 40 contract builders impacted.

EA has beforehand made cuts to particularly the QA workforce round Apex Legends, a alternative that continues to confuse gamers, particularly after Respawn is at the moment recovering from an enormous subject that noticed gamers lose all of their bought and earned in-game gadgets and progress markers simply final week.

This isn’t the primary time that particularly the QA workforce for Apex Legends has taken successful. Final 12 months EA minimize over 200 folks from the Apex Legends QA workforce. This time it’s one other 40.

The report additionally stipulates that these layoffs should not a part of the huge restructuring that EA introduced at first of this 12 months, which resulted in 670 folks being laid off.

That layoff did additionally influence the Apex Legends workforce, however it looks like this shutdown provides one other 40 folks to the listing of these laid off by EA.

Staff have been notified that their contracts wouldn’t be renewed throughout a mass Zoom name, the place it administration cited “restructuring of the enterprise” as the rationale for the layoff, quite than efficiency, in keeping with the report.

The report additionally clarifies that this layoff got here to the shock of even workforce leads, who didn’t discover out till those that reported to them made them conscious of the layoff.

These 40 QA contractors have been solely weeks away from ending their contracts, and in keeping with a supply of Insider’s, “All the things gave the impression to be heading to a traditional renewal able to sort out the subsequent 12 months of plans for Apex.”

It’s as soon as once more unlucky to see extra builders blindsided by layoffs, and hopefully these impacted will have the ability to land on their toes.

Supply – [Insider Gaming]