After two previous waves of layoffs this year, EA is once again axing employees. A story published today in Kotaku recently spoke on the situation, and although there is no known number of how many people have been laid off, online postings, at least 12 at the time the article was published, showed several posts from people who were laid off from remote-work in the US and employees from EA’s Hyderabad office in India. According to Kotaku, these layoffs mostly affected “its recruitment, customer support, trust and safety, and IT teams”. Last Wednesday, an email was sent to EA’s Fan Care team that alluded to the layoffs, saying they needed to “adapt how we work to better meet fans’ changing needs (…) As part of this evolution, we are making or proposing to make changes to some roles, creating new roles, and moving certain work to different teams, locations, or service partners”. 

As previously mentioned, this wouldn’t be the first round of layoffs experienced by EA employees this year. Beginning in February, EA laid off an undisclosed number of people from Full Circle, the developers behind the Skate, and would later in March go on to lay off members of Battlefield Studios who had been working on Battlefield 6, even though the latter title was the best-selling game of the year. Going even further back, we see how this follows a pattern of other layoffs occurring with the company over the last few years, having laid off 6% of its workforce back in 2023, followed by 670 staff members in 2024, and 400 in 2025. Sources informed the Financial Times last September that EA’s new owners, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, were looking to use AI to cut back on EA’s spending to help pay off debt accumulated through the $20 billion purchase of the company.