{"id":658,"date":"2025-04-15T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2025-04-15T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:02:10","slug":"after-selling-pokemon-go-for-3-5-billion-niantic-is-now-laying-off-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/after-selling-pokemon-go-for-3-5-billion-niantic-is-now-laying-off-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"After Selling Pok\u00e9mon GO For $3.5 Billion, Niantic Is Now Laying Off Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>68 workers will lose their jobs next month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Niantic is laying off 68 employees next month, following its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/03\/niantic-sells-pokemon-go-and-entire-gaming-division-for-usd3-5-billion\">multi-billion dollar sale of its gaming division<\/a> which includes the AR mega-hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a>, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/niantic-is-laying-off-68-employees-after-selling-its-game-business-for-3-5-billion\">Game Developer<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet spotted a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/edd.ca.gov\/en\/jobs_and_training\/Layoff_Services_WARN\/\">Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification report<\/a>, (a WARN) published in California earlier today, which confirms that at least 68 people will be losing their jobs at Niantic on 20th May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/after-selling-pokemon-go-for-usd3-5-billion-niantic-is-now-laying-off-employees\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>68 workers will lose their jobs next month. Niantic is laying off 68 employees next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}