Ubisoft Barcelona staff strike over planned layoffs after Assassin's Creed release
SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGCalifornia Employment Development Department· filed June 10, 2026View the filing ↗
What we know
Location: Barcelona, Spain (San Francisco County).
A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on June 10, 2026.
Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the CA state workforce agency.
Summary
Workers at Ubisoft's Barcelona studio staged a three-day strike in protest of planned layoffs following the launch of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. The strike was organized by employees at the Ubisoft Barcelona studio who oppose management's planned job cuts; the article frames the action as a response to those announced or rumored reductions. Specific numbers of workers affected, exact timing for the planned layoffs, and details on which departments would be hit are not provided in the story. The report highlights worker unrest and organized labor action at Ubisoft Barcelona as the primary consequence of the studio's restructuring plans after the game's launch.
Ubisoft disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CA state workforce agency on June 10, 2026. The notice covers 93 employees in Floor San Francisco, CA (San Francisco County), with the layoff effective August 10, 2026.
That is roughly 0.5% of the 18,000 people Ubisoft employs.
LayoffTalk has tracked 28 layoff events at Ubisoft since March 2023, including 245 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 26 additional events known from news reporting.
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