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What Unity Software layoffs have meant for employees

At the end of both 2022 and 2025, most of Unity's full-time staff worked outside the United States, about 73% and 77% respectively, according to its 2022 10-K and 2025 10-K. That's worth remembering whenever a cut is stated as a share of the whole company, which at both year-ends was mostly overseas. Over the same three years the office count fell from 64 to 25 and the number of countries with Unity staff from 21 to 16, and when CEO Matthew Bromberg announced the February 2025 changes in an email 80 Level later published, he set town halls in Montreal, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Seoul, Tokyo and San Francisco.

The reasons Unity gave for its cuts, at least from 2023 on, were about the business. In January 2023 it pointed to weak economic trends and to its November 2022 acquisition of ironSource, Game Developer reported, and Riccitiello said the company needed to be more selective in its investments. Its May 2023 8-K spoke of restructuring specific teams for long-term and profitable growth, its November 2023 8-K put the end of its Wētā FX services under plans to focus on its core businesses, and its January 2024 8-K described restructuring and refocusing on the core business. In February 2025, Bromberg's memo framed the changes as a response to choices about where Unity was headed. If one of those cuts took your job, you can answer an interviewer in one sentence that names the round, such as "my team was cut in Unity's January 2024 restructuring," and a short layoff answer for interviews has ideas for what to say next.

What Unity's separation money was made of changed between rounds. The May 2023 8-K expected that round's charges to be substantially all cash, while the 2025 10-K says the 2024 separation costs came largely from the acceleration and modification of equity awards, and it ties those costs to both the January workforce plan and the ironSource founders' departure. If you held unvested Unity stock, that shift is worth knowing, though neither filing says whose awards were changed.

In June 2022, Kotaku's sources said people were asked to log into video calls with no advance notice of what the call was about, sometimes with someone from HR on the line. Those calls came about two weeks after then-CEO John Riccitiello told an all-hands, by attendees' accounts, that Unity wasn't in financial trouble and wouldn't be laying anyone off. In February 2025, laid-off workers told the outlet that published Bromberg's memo the announcement went out across the company around 5 a.m. Pacific, followed shortly by a generic termination letter from HR. Bromberg's memo that day said everyone affected would hear within a couple of days, by the end of February 12, and it named two groups, people whose roles were being eliminated and people entering an employment consultation period.

If you worked at a Unity site in California, Texas or Washington, the three states behind its notices, our unemployment pages for California, Texas and Washington cover each state's benefit amounts and how to file a claim. For anyone handed a Unity separation agreement, how severance negotiation works covers review windows and which clauses are negotiable. COBRA was part of the 2022 terms by Kotaku's account, and how COBRA works covers its deadlines and how long it lasts.