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A new report from VGC alleges that Square Enix is laying off staff in " nearly all areas " of its Western offices, with staff in its Europe and US offices hit. There's currently no word from Square Enix on how many have been impacted by this layoff, but sources told VGC that just from Square's London office, 140 employees are at risk of redundancy.

The news was delivered to staff through an internal video call as part of a restructuring that Square had mentioned in the progress report it published today , the same report where it boldly claimed that it wanted 70% of its QA work to be done by AI by 2027 .

In the progress report, Square writes, " a fundamental res

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