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Bandai Namco has reportedly cancelled several titles and is cutting its workforce (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

According to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter, the company is “taking a traditionally Japanese approach to reducing staff and sending workers to rooms where they are given nothing to do, putting pressure on them to leave voluntarily.”

Bandai Namco Studios has reportedly moved 200 workers to such rooms, leading to almost 100 resignations.

I have to sit in an open-space chicken coop whenever I have to go to the office and those guys have 200 spare rooms? What the

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They have 200 solitary prison cells.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I’ll take it over not even having a dedicated spot in that corporate chicken coop we call the office.