EA Reportedly Lays Off Extra Employees in US and India

As 2026 continues, so does the story of layoffs that proceed to be a scourge throughout the business. In a brand new report from Kotaku’s Rebekah Valentine, Digital Arts has set off one other spherical of layoffs, following an electronic mail despatched out to buyer assist final week, and varied public posting from staff.

The staff in these circumstances appear to be folks working in Digital Arts departments of recruitment, buyer assist, belief and security, and IT groups with it impacting some distant employees within the US, and a variety of people of their Hyderabad, India workplace – a few of whom at labored on the firm for over 10 years. We do not know what number of staff are being laid from these actions. Within the electronic mail despatched to buyer assist it included a bit that learn:

“As a part of this evolution, we’re making or proposing to make modifications to some roles, creating new roles, and transferring sure work to totally different groups, places, or service companions.”

This information comes as Digital Arts is making an attempt to promote itself to a personal consortium, made up of the Saudi Arabia PIF Fund, Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Companions for $55 Billion.

This is not the one spherical of layoffs we have seen this 12 months from Digital Arts both, as we have seen the Battlefield group lay off a equally unknown variety of staff earlier this 12 months regardless of Battlefield 6 being the most effective promoting recreation final 12 months and outdoing Activision’s Name of Obligation. Skate developer Full Circle additionally laid off a unnumbered workers in February, and the previous couple of years have had a number of rounds of layoffs at Digital Arts. It at all times is speaking about ‘evolving’ or ‘remodeling’, however for 3 plus years we have seen EA constantly taking the identical motion of simply shedding folks throughout its agency, no matter relations to success.