CD Projekt Red announce extensive layoffs, citing "overstaffing" issue

The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt have announced major layoffs, which will see around 100 people leaving the company in the coming months. In the official "Organizational Update" blog post, CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski revealed that the company is "overstaffed" at the moment and don't have opportunities to offer for people who are currently finishing their tasks. 

CD Projekt will lay off roughly nine per cent of the entire team but this decision won't be immediate as some of the employees will be let go as late as Q1 2024. The company also offered everyone "a comprehensive severance package".

Kickinski mentions in the blog post that the teams at CD Projekt need to be more agile and more effective, suggesting that layoffs should help with reaching that goal.

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Here's the important bit from Kicinski's statement:

"We’ve carefully assessed all teams in the company in terms of their expected contribution to the delivery of our strategy. There’s no easy way to say this, but today we are overstaffed. We have talented people on board who are finishing their tasks and — based on current and expected project needs — we already know we don’t have other opportunities for them in the next year. 

The outcome is the studio parting ways with around 100 people, which is roughly 9% of the entire team. This will not be immediate as some employees will be let go as late as Q1 2024 but, in the spirit of transparency, we’ve chosen to share the information now."

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Even though CD Projekt Red have a bunch of projects in the works, they have decided to layoff nine per cent of the company

CD Projekt Red are working on several big projects at the moment, including The Witcher Remake, a brand new The Witcher game, Cyberpunk 2077 sequel and more.

One would argue that CD Projekt Red needs every single developer to stay at the company to push all these projects out the door but that doesn't seem to be how CD Projekt CEOs are seeing it. 

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