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EA Fires 5% of Its Staff
JorgeDeLaCancha writes "On the heels of the dispute between EA and Ubisoft, EA has recently announced the decision to fire five percent of their workforce, approximately 350 people. EA's recent announcement has nothing to do with game sales, but rather 'It's more reconciling the costs of learning new systems with what the needs of the new systems are.'"
Yeah, they fired the slackers who only do 80 hour work weeks.
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Why do you think that? If someone is "laid off" it implies that there's something wrong with the company. If he's "fired" it implies there's something wrong with the employee. Companies fire people because they're bad employees; they lay them off for business reasons that often don't have anything at all to do with whether or not the employee is good at his job.
If I were a manager looking to hire someone, if I knew he'd been laid off I wouldn't hold that against him, but if I knew he'd been fired I would be very curious as to the reason.
"Fired" generally means that a person was terminated for some reason directly related to their work performance or some portion of their personal work-related activities, while "laid off" generally means that the termination was due to elements completely outside the person's control.
Unemployment benefits are generally available to the latter group with very little question (the employer makes the situation known to the state), while the qualifying for such benefits depends on specific circumstances in the former group's case (folks who get fired often have to go through a formal hearing process to determine whether or not UI benefits apply in their situation).
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