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Nintendo of Europe Lays Off 320 People

Nintendo of Europe Lays Off 320 People

A lot of people at Nintendo of Europe, will be losing their job soon. 130 of these will be full time employees at Nintendo of Europe, while another 190 are employees who work toward German localization.  Nintendo issued an official statement to Kotaku this morning.

As previously communicated in June 2014, approximately 130 permanent employees will be released by Nintendo of Europe (Germany) at the end of August 2014 as part of a set of measures to better enable the European business to adapt to the rapidly changing business environment.

As a separate measure, Nintendo of Europe is reorganizing its European Localization Development (ELD) department, where it currently uses a number of temporary agency workers in translation and testing activities, in order to increase flexibility and cost-efficiency in the long-term. It is intended that there will be an increase in outsourcing future translation and test activities to third-party companies on an as-needed basis, and very sadly this has meant having ended the contracts of 190 temporary agency workers, who were formally notified of this decision in June 2014.

Source: Kotaku

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