Ubisoft Follows Up Request For Employees To Lay Themselves Off By Doing It Itself

Staff redundancies are anticipated at Ubisoft Stockholm and Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft has announced. 55 employees are expected to lose their jobs, according to a statement sent to IGN. Massive, acquired back in 2008, is the studio behind The Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Star Wars Outlaws.

In a statement, Ubisoft explained, “This restructure follows the completion of the Voluntary Leave Program launched during the fall of 2025, a finalized long-term roadmap, and a completed staffing and appointment process, which together have provided clearer visibility into the structure and capacity required to support the two studios’ work and sustainably over time.”

“The proposed restructuring will begin with a focus on individual agreements, and impacted employees are being informed directly and supported with care and respect in line with local regulations,” Ubisoft said.

Ubisoft’s slow, painful transformation

The news comes months after the French publisher began a new cost-cutting restructuring plan. Back in October 2025, it asked developers at Massive to lay themselves off voluntarily.

The publisher’s redundancy scheme came after a new deal with Tencent, in which the conglomerate invested over $1 billion in a smaller subsidiary, Vantage Studios. The new studio will focus on the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six Siege franchises.

IGN notes that despite the new layoffs, updates for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will continue, as will development for The Division 3 and the survival extraction mode The Division 2: Survivors.

News of job cuts at Ubisoft is not new. Last week, Ubisoft closed its Halifax office after it unionized. The shuttering of the mobile game developer resulted in the loss of 71 jobs. The publisher claimed that the closure was not due to unionization.