Earlier this month, the International Game Developers Association published a call to action urging leaders across the games industry to consider the consequences of layoffs, and prompting them to embrace sustainability.
Among the IGDA’s ‘must-do’s for studios, the organisation called on them to “support diversity initiatives and internal roles to help retain the increased diverse talent the games industry has developed over the last decade.”
When discussing the industry’s current wave of mass layoffs at the Game Developers Conference with IGDA executive director Jakin Vela, we mention that diversity programs have been among the first things to be cut by companies undergoing redundancies.
