Milan, July 27, 2024 – They are dealing with to Video game translations that reach consoles around the world.product quality control, and highly qualified staff who have hitherto been considered “excellence in the production area” ofKeyword Studios Groupthe world’s largest support services company for the video game industry.
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workers what time “They are being sacrificed in order to cut staff costs.” As a result, unions denounce the companies’ double choice: the choice “Assigning some human activities to artificial intelligence” A large part of the production area was transferred to a large, already active centre in Poland.Where labor costs are lower.
The decision on cuts has been taken at a global level and has had repercussions in Italy, and in particular, in Cinisello Balsamo, where the production headquarters of the company founded in 1998 in Dublin is located.
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Keywords Studios Italy Srl is now open Mass layoffs involving 31 people out of approximately 160 employees In Italy, almost all of them are in Cinisello and only 12 in the Rome office. Six chapters in the field of “linguistic quality of translation”, 20 in the field of “localization” and 5 in the field of audio.
the reason? Revenue decline in 2023after the “continuous and uninterrupted growth that continued in 2013”, with the “digital bubble” completing during the pandemic. And choosing to save money by replacing human labor with artificial intelligence. “My net salary is 1,600 euros per month – explains one of the workers – and In the face of a company that is not in crisis, these cuts are not justified.“
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That’s why the Filcams Cgil, Fisascat Cisl and Uiltucs unions have announced A state of unrest and two days of strike. “We also consider it questionable – they explain – the methods and timing chosen to start the collective dismissal procedure in question: it is no coincidence that it is close to the summer holidays, with Prior exclusion from social safety net use Or any other business plan that does not involve the use of 31 layoffs.”
The company, over the years, He went shopping in Italy for small specialty businesses.has grown to position itself as a leading provider of essential services for some of the most popular and successful titles in gaming, including: Fortnite and call of duty. This dispute is part of a delicate phase for the video game industry, and in general, for the digital gaming industry, with the series of cuts made by major technology companies worldwide.
Freelancers, actors, and voice actors working in the video game world who in the United States are also mobilizing to protect themselves from the use of generative AI.
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