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# Welcome To 2024, Same As 2023
- URL: https://aftermath.site/unity-job-cuts-layoffs/
- Published: 2024-01-08T23:49:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-27T17:19:50.000Z
- Author: Luke Plunkett
- Tags: News, Labor, Video Games, business, layoffs, unity, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-27 13:00

As a species, humans have this weird tendency to compartmentalise our achievements and challenges into calendar years. We do it for movies, we do it for albums, we do it for [games](https://aftermath.site/2023-game-of-the-year/). And we especially do it for trends. We like to say something was "The Year Of", like how[ 2016 was "The Year Famous People Died"](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38329740?ref=aftermath.site). Anyone reading this website[ probably thinks 2023 was "The Year Everyone Got Laid Off", and it definitely was](https://aftermath.site/layoffs-are-the-vibe/), but if you think that trend was confined to last year then oof, you have got a rough 12 months ahead of you.

All of which is to say that today, just eight days into the new year,[ *Bloomberg* is reporting](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-08/unity-software-to-cut-1-800-employees-about-25-of-workforce?srnd=undefined&leadSource=uverify%20wall&ref=aftermath.site) that Unity Software--the company behind Unity, one of the world's most popular video game engines--is going to "reduce its workforce by 25%, eliminating about 1,800 jobs".

In June 2022 around 200 Unity staff were let go. Then in January 2023 a further 300 were laid off. In May 2023 more cuts trimmed 8% of Unity's staff, and further "reductions" in November--[at the same time CEO John Riccitiello stepped down after a hugely controversial proposal to change to Unity's pricing](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/technology/unity-chief-resigns-after-pricing-backlash.html?ref=aftermath.site)\--shed another 3.8%. Combined with the 1800 layoffs reported today, that will bring the total number of workers affected in the last 18 months to around *3500*.

But don't worry. As terrible as this news will be to the thousands of people and families affected,[ shares in Unity are up 4.8% today](https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/unity-software-to-cut-1-800-employees-about-25-of-workforce-1.2019376?ref=aftermath.site#:~:text=%28Bloomberg%29%20%2D%2D%20Unity%20Software%20Inc,to%20improve%20long%2Dterm%20profitability.), having gained 43% throughout 2023\. Which sounds counter-intuitive, but remember: the layoffs aren't the result, they're the point.