Now 1,000 will leave EA

MCV Staff 22nd December 2008 Business News

Electronic Arts has announced further details of its recently-announced restructuring plan which will see a reduction in its global headcount.

1,000 staff – or around 10 per cent of the EA workforce – are to go as the publisher consolidates its development resources around the world.

The new statement increases by four per cent the six per cent workforce cut that EA had announced at the end of October.

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