"We mean business" - Elder Scrolls and Fallout studio union members to march in protest of sweeping Xbox job cuts next week

Xbox Layoffs: Bethesda HR Allegedly Removes Memorial for Laid-Off Staff, Sparking Union Backlash | 📲 LatestLY

Bethesda Game Studios Union alleges HR dismantled an employee-led memorial honouring laid-off colleagues in Maryland. The incident occurs amid ongoing Xbox restructuring and job cuts, highlighting persistent tensions between staff and Microsoft management regarding labour practices and workplace culture during layoffs. 📲 Xbox Layoffs: Bethesda HR Allegedly Removes Memorial for Laid-Off Staff, Sparking Union Backlash.

"We mean business" - Elder Scrolls and Fallout studio union members to march in protest of sweeping Xbox job cuts next week

Bethesda Game Studios union workers have announced plans to protest the recent mass layoffs impacting Microsoft's Xbox division, telling members, "The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear. We won't let that happen."

Bethesda Union Members Are Organizing a Protest Against the Xbox Layoffs!

They won’t stand for Microsoft expecting them to quietly accept the layoffs and have those affected simply disappear into the background.   In response to the mass layoffs at Xbox, union members at Bethesda Game Studios (BGS) will go on strike next week. According to an email from the OneBGS Mobilization Committee, OneBGS is planning protests outside the company’s studios in Montreal, Rockville, and Austin. The protests will take place on July 1…

Unionized Bethesda Workers Plan Strike Over Xbox Mass Layoffs

Following the recent confirmation that layoffs related to Asha Sharma's Xbox reset have resulted in significant layoffs at ZeniMax-run studios—amounting to 50% of Id Software's workers and 25% of Bethesda's—OneBGS, the CWA-affiliated Bethesda Game Studios Union, has announced that its workers has organized marches outside Bethesda's studios in Montreal, Canada; Austin and Dallas, Texas; and Rockville, Maryland. CWA representatives said in an ema…

Unionized workers at Bethesda studios plan a nationwide protest against recent layoffs on July 15

It should come as little surprise that members of the Bethesda Game Studios union OneBGS are not about to take the layoffs of hundreds at studios like ZeniMax Online Studios lying down. According to an emal from the union’s mobilizing committee obtained by Game Developer, OneBGS is urging members to join in a protest rally on […]

Bethesda union staff to march outside studios over Xbox layoffs: 'The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear'

Xbox's 'reset' layoffs have hit Bethesda hard, with long-term institutional talent shown the door—Zenimax Online Studios, which is part of the same studio family as Bethesda and works on the Elder Scrolls Online, was also particularly dismantled by Xbox, with over 60% of its staff laid off in the past year. Understandably, Bethesda developers are irate. Partially because in some studios HR forced them to take down tributes to their laid off coll…