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posted by janrinok on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the from-angry-birds-to-angry-people dept.

From Wired:

Rovio has confirmed that 110 people will lose their jobs as the Angry Birds maker also shuts down its game-development studio in Tampere. The layoffs, first announced in October, amount to about 14 percent of the company's workforce.

It had been expected that Rovio would make 130 people redundant but after a round of consultations this number has now been reduced. Rovio said that as a result of the redundancies "several positions" have been opened for internal applications. The actual number of employees out of work will depend on how many new internal positions are filled.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday December 06 2014, @10:58AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday December 06 2014, @10:58AM (#123174) Journal

    Nice.. Workers help employer to write a cash cow. Once task is done they can be thrown away while the owner reaps the income for years.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @11:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @11:11AM (#123176)
    about 3 of the employees wrote the cash cow. the other 1000 are in marketting, spending all day working out new products they can stick their stupid images on. I can't go shopping without seeing a dozen stupid angry birds foodstuffs now. nothing creative was required to come up with "angry birds cola", you're giving these jerks too much respect.
    • (Score: 1) by EETech1 on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:50AM

      by EETech1 (957) on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:50AM (#123357)

      My son and I count angry birds crap as counting practice when we go to Target. We always find over 100 things. Last week when I asked him what he wanted to do, he said "I bet we could find 200 angry birds things at Target with Christmas coming"

      Took us a little over an hour (including looking at every other toy too)

      They sold out in every possible way

      Then got candy crushed

  • (Score: 2) by bitshifter on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:26PM

    by bitshifter (2241) on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:26PM (#123253)

    This is not that simple.
    What should the business owner do?
    How much should he lose before he has to lower his expenses?
    Should he wait until the business is bankrupt and all the employees lose their jobs?
    I say this not as a business owner but as an employee.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday December 06 2014, @07:21PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Saturday December 06 2014, @07:21PM (#123267) Journal

      Profit sharing? stock options?

      • (Score: 2) by bitshifter on Saturday December 06 2014, @09:00PM

        by bitshifter (2241) on Saturday December 06 2014, @09:00PM (#123292)

        I don't know it they got them, or not.
        Do you?
        If so, enlighten us.
        In the company I work for (which is a private company), when we have a very good year, we get a bonus of one months salary at the end of the year. This has happened twice in the last seven years.