Rare Makes Staff Cutbacks!

Quote: Sources confirm reports that studio has significantly cut back on its art department, replacing full-time artists with contractors. The news broke in a 4Chan post last month, a screengrab of which can be found here. “In an effort to cut costs,” it reads, “Rare has cut their last permanent members of art staff. All artists working there are temps.” Two separate, independent sources close to the studio have confirmed the news to us under condition of anonymity. Our first source tells us that the entire art department at Rare – some 42 staff – were told their jobs in the firm’s Twycross headquarters were at risk of redundancy, and all affected staff had to apply for 23 managerial jobs at Rare’s new offices in Birmingham. That means an effective cut of 19 staff – the maximum number of redundancies allowed under EU employment law without the need for a full consultation process. However, our source says “some negative feeling has led to additional artists taking the very generous voluntary redundancy packages,” taking the number of redundancies beyond 20. Our second source does not know precise numbers, but says that “due to the consultation period coming in, it would seem to be more than 20.”

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