{"id":654566,"date":"2013-04-25T20:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=465916"},"modified":"2013-04-25T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T00:05:24","slug":"ea-reportedly-lays-off-10-of-its-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654566","title":{"rendered":"EA reportedly lays off 10% of its workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/25\/ea-layoffs-10-percent-workforce-465916\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/electronic_arts_redwood_city_may_2011.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"EA Layoffs\" title=\"EA Layoffs\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Gaming giant Electronic Arts has laid off 10% of its entire workforce, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/layoffs-at-ea-today-481149396\">a report from <em>Kotaku<\/em><\/a>. While <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/ea\">EA<\/a> itself didn&#8217;t reveal how many workers it laid off on Thursday, it did acknowledge an unspecified number of staff reductions that it said were part of &#8220;hard but essential changes&#8221; needed to help the company &#8220;focus on delivering great games and showing players around the world why to spend their time with us.&#8221; The layoffs at EA come after its former CEO\u00a0John Riccitiello resigned last month and the company has made <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/ea-worst-american-company-426420\/\">several high-profile public relations mistakes<\/a> recently, including its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/13\/simcity-pr-nightmare-analysis-372284\/\">notoriously botched launch of the new SimCity game<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/iTg8ah_I1lg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming giant Electronic Arts has laid off 10% of its entire workforce, according to a report from Kotaku. While EA itself didn&#8217;t reveal how many workers it laid off on Thursday, it did acknowledge an unspecified number of staff reductions that it said were part of &#8220;hard but essential changes&#8221; needed to help the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}