Digital Arts has reportedly laid off greater than 200 high quality assurance testers at its Baton Rouge workplace in Lousiana.
This information comes by means of Kotaku, which studies that EA laid off these staff, who labored totally on the writer’s battle royale Apex Legends, throughout a shock Zoom name yesterday. The publication studies that its three sources had been in a position to affirm the information, which started making rounds on Twitter when each present and former QA testers on the Lousiana workplace started to share what that they had discovered.
EA simply fired its whole Baton Rouge studio, which is actually their whole Apex Legends QA employees.
— Ben (@TopMarx420) February 28, 2023
Kotaku studies that round 8 a.m. CT, QA testers had been invited to an unscheduled however necessary Zoom name with Magnit World, which is the contract company that manages the employees. It was throughout this assembly that the whole QA workforce on the Lousiana workplace was “disbanded,” in response to Kotaku.
The publication reached out to EA in search of a response to the mass layoffs, however the writer opted to not instantly deal with it, as a substitute stating that as “a part of its ongoing international technique, we’re increasing the distribution of our Apex Legends testing workforce and ending execution that is been concentrated in Baton Rouge, Lousiana, impacting providers offered by our third-party supplier.” You’ll want to take a look at Kotaku’s write-up for the total assertion from EA and extra context surrounding the layoffs, the Lousiana workplace, and extra.
[Source: Kotaku]
