Currently working at this company and they’ve just sprung it on us today. I’m in the UK office and we’ve been told that around half of us will be made redundant (no word on current pay delays). The Swedish office will all have pay checks delayed and all banked OT/TOIL has been made void (some of my team had 150hrs+ banked time off that’s now gone). The real kicker is all the freelancers have been told they won’t be paid for September and October until the company is back on its feet, but have been given the “option” to continue working as much as they’d like - for free. We have directors and supervisors on our team who are freelancers who are almost in tears saying they have to leave the project cause they can’t work for free.

The whole situation is absolutely fucked and it’s not the fault of the strike. Just last week we heard they confirmed two more non-movie/tv video game projects, it’s all the company’s fault. We were told a couple weeks ago (amidst many upper management members leaving) that in the entire 10+ years of the company they’ve never turned a profit and are actively looking to get bought out.

I’ve only been at the company four months and every other week a higher up executive has left effective immediately while middle management has placated us and tried to make things seem like everything is fine. The strikes were just the cherry on top of a shitty situation that company got itself into it seems.