{"id":422,"date":"2014-12-05T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2014-12-05T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T20:03:23","slug":"angry-birds-publisher-rovio-laying-off-110-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds Publisher Rovio Laying off 110 Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Angry-Birds-Rant-Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-423\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Angry-Birds-Rant-Image.jpg\" alt=\"Angry-Birds-Rant-Image\" width=\"640\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Angry-Birds-Rant-Image.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Angry-Birds-Rant-Image-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rovio, the Finnish company responsible for the likes of\u00a0<em>Angry Birds<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Tiny Thief\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Amazing Alex<\/em>, has just concluded a two month round of employee negotiations. The result? They\u2019re set to lay off 110 people.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations were originally announced back on October 2nd. At that time, it predicted it would need to terminate 130 employees in order to keep working. The negotiations, while still resulting in a big loss of labor, cut the total job drop back by 20. That\u2019s the silver lining here, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the job cuts, Rovio has decided to consolidate its workforce into a single location. The\u00a0<em>Angry Birds<\/em> maker will close its Tampere, Finland studio and bring all remaining employees into its Espoo, Finland office.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to get too hyperbolic here, but do these employee negotiations and resulting layoffs indicate that Rovio is on its way out? This company was on top of the world with\u00a0<em>Angry Birds<\/em> only a few years ago, with plenty of writers in the mobile game declaring stuff like \u201c<em>Angry Birds<\/em> is the new<em> Super Mario<\/em>.\u201d How long did that last?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Is Rovio on the way out, or is this a small bump along the much longer road of success?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rovio.com\/en\/news\/blog\/587\/rovio-employee-negotiations-concluded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ROVIO<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rovio, the Finnish company responsible for the likes of\u00a0Angry Birds,\u00a0Tiny Thief\u00a0and\u00a0Amazing Alex, has just concluded a two month round of employee negotiations. The result? They\u2019re set to lay off 110 people. The negotiations were originally announced back on October 2nd. At that time, it predicted it would need to terminate 130 employees in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-gaming","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}