{"id":201901,"date":"2026-03-27T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/201901\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:20:13","slug":"epic-games-skar-bort-over-tusen-jobb-efter-fallande-fortnite-engagemang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/201901\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games sk\u00e4r bort \u00f6ver tusen jobb efter fallande Fortnite-engagemang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"4613\" data-end=\"5135\"><strong>UTRIEKS FACKLIGT Spelbolaget Epic Games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/epic-games-said-tuesday-that-it-will-lay-off-more-than-1000-employees-2026-03-24\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meddelade den 24 mars<\/a> att man s\u00e4ger upp \u00f6ver 1 000 anst\u00e4llda, vilket motsvarar ungef\u00e4r 20 procent av personalstyrkan. Enligt Reuters h\u00e4nvisade vd Tim Sweeney till minskat engagemang kring Fortnite, svagare marknadsf\u00f6rh\u00e5llanden och ett kostnadsl\u00e4ge d\u00e4r bolaget \u201cspenderar betydligt mer \u00e4n det tj\u00e4nar\u201d. Samtidigt ska f\u00f6retaget spara ytterligare 500 miljoner dollar genom neddragningar i marknadsf\u00f6ring, kontrakt och \u00f6ppna tj\u00e4nster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5137\" data-end=\"5626\">Sweeney understr\u00f6k ocks\u00e5 att nedsk\u00e4rningarna inte \u00e4r AI-relaterade, vilket speglar den v\u00e4xande oron i branschen f\u00f6r att teknikbolag anv\u00e4nder AI som f\u00f6rev\u00e4ndning f\u00f6r att sk\u00e4ra ned personal. Men \u00e4ven utan AI-retorik \u00e4r logiken densamma: n\u00e4r ett storbolag m\u00f6ter l\u00e4gre tillv\u00e4xt och pressad l\u00f6nsamhet skjuts kostnaden ned\u00e5t, mot de anst\u00e4llda. Epic gav besked om minst fyra m\u00e5naders avg\u00e5ngsvederlag i USA och sex m\u00e5naders sjukf\u00f6rs\u00e4kring f\u00f6r ber\u00f6rda d\u00e4r.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5628\" data-end=\"5920\">Detta \u00e4r Epics andra stora nedsk\u00e4rningsv\u00e5g p\u00e5 n\u00e5gra \u00e5r och passar in i ett bredare m\u00f6nster av os\u00e4kerhet i spelindustrin, d\u00e4r arbetare b\u00e4r konsekvenserna av en marknad som f\u00f6rst expanderar aggressivt och sedan kr\u00e4ver \u201canpassning\u201d n\u00e4r avkastningen pressas.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5922\" data-end=\"6139\">Spelindustrin s\u00e4ljer kreativitet och innovation, men styrs av samma gamla kapitalistiska lag: n\u00e4r vinsten sviktar blir arbetarna den f\u00f6rsta posten att sk\u00e4ra bort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" data-placeholder-resp=\"20x20\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/printfriendly-icon-md.png\" alt=\"Print Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\" class=\"pf-button-img\" style=\"width: 16px;height: 16px;\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\/>Skriv ut<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTRIEKS FACKLIGT Spelbolaget Epic Games meddelade den 24 mars att man s\u00e4ger upp \u00f6ver 1 000 anst\u00e4llda, vilket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[66],"tags":[16703,1861,6716,6164,1389,80,78,79,34,1391,31,33,32,30,81,84,237,83,82],"class_list":["post-201901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vetenskap-och-teknik","tag-epicgames","tag-facket","tag-fackligt","tag-kommunister","tag-kommunisterna","tag-science","tag-science-and-technology","tag-scienceandtechnology","tag-se","tag-skp","tag-svenska","tag-sverige","tag-sweden","tag-swedish","tag-technology","tag-teknik","tag-utrikes","tag-vetenskap","tag-vetenskapteknik"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@se\/116299931766037394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}