Cyberpunk 2077 devs unionised partly in response to unexplained layoffs
Earlier this month, staff at CD Projekt Red announced that they’ve formed a union, and now more details regarding their motivations for doing so have emerged.
As detailed in a new report from IGN, employees at the publisher the Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077 have suggested that not knowing which of their colleagues would be laid off and not being notified of the reasons behind specific people being let go were both factors in their decision to unionise. Earlier this year, CDPR enacted three separate rounds of layoffs within a single three month period.
According to Paweł Myszka, one of the co-founders of The Polish Gamedev Workers Union, the latter was a major driver behind the growth of support for unionisation among employees at the studio. Under Polish law, union representatives can access information on the current personnel structures of companies, as well as future plans regarding said structures.