Angry Birds Maker Rovio Announces Layoffs
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Rovio(NEW YORK) — The company that created the popular mobile game Angry Birds announced on Thursday that it will lay off about 16 percent of its Finland workforce in order to create a “simplified organization.”
Rovio’s CEO Mikael Hed called the company “innovative and forward-looking,” noting the need to be “the best at adapting to change.” The company will look to reduce its workforce by 130 employees in order to focus on “three key businesses with the highest growth potential: games, media, and consumer products.”
“It is never easy to consider changes like this,” Hed said, “but it is better to do them sooner rather than later.”
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