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Zynga’s layoff of 314 employees — 15% of its workforce — shows the tough times aren’t over

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga’s burst of news today includes an all-too familiar round of layoffs. The social-mobile casual games company is laying off about 314 employees, or 15 percent of its workforce.

Zynga’s been cutting workers for a while, and this layoff will be another shock. More than a year ago, it had more than 3,000 employees. Many of them were refugees from rivals such as Electronic Arts and were veterans of the console game business.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.