Autodesk has announced plans to lay off 1150 employees, approximately 13% of its workforce in a new company restructure. At present it is unclear which departments will be affected, but according to the press release the restructuring plan aims to “focus on the company’s strategic priorities of completing the subscription transition; digitizing the company; and re-imagining manufacturing, construction, and production”. This follows a previous restructure plan announced in February 2016 that saw the workforce reduced by 10%, approximately 925 employees. Read the full press release, including a summary of the third quarter results, on the Autodesk website.
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“Digitizing the company”
Unless they’re literally sending people to Tron-land, enough with the PR bullshit.
I don’t know, maybe they’ve been using typewriters and tippex – it might explain a few things 😉
“As we enter the growth phase of our model transition, we need to re-balance investments to focus on our strategic priorities. This includes divesting from some areas and increasing our investment in others.”
I wonder what this means.
It means now they have a captured users in the rental system. They don’t need all those programmers to develop the products, its time to milk this cow.
Yeah because once Adobe went all cloud rental they did the same.. Oh wait no, they doubled down on product development and are constantly rolling out new features.
How about not opening your mouth if you don’t know what you’re talking about?
I hope you are joking because the only real thing Adobe rolled out has been done in the latest release, and also in research, but not implemented yet, since the first CC until today’s CC photoshop and after effects are practically the same with the exception of some small additions so… really? If they doubled the workforce I’m not sure what’s the reason because there is no impact in the software…
To be objective, the quality, speed and usefulness of the updates has not changed after Adobe transitioned to subscription. Being a long time Photoshop user, I am noticing useful new features at about the same rate as when Adobe still sold box licences. But unlike then, I can now get Photoshop with Lightroom for $120 year, which means it will take about 8-10 years before it adds up to what perpetual licence of PS used to cost (and I get Lightroom thrown in as a bonus).
Yes, we all know how much you hate rental, but let’s be honest, Adobe does rental right. They are sane with their pricing. Autodesk is not 😉
We talking about Autodesk here!
Maybe you should get the context right before opening your mouth.
Adobe has had a relevant new features in the last 5 years?
Moving chess pieces around I guess. There might be some clues if we hear about any teams losing a disproportionate number of staff. I’m sure some folk will be wondering if they will drop x or y, and given recent history who knows.
With increasing revenues the only logical step is to lay off people. Yeah, we get it. Does that mean that the more money we spend on your software the less R&D they get? Well thanks for the lesson on how ‘greedware’ works.
If there is one thing shareholders hate it is spending on anything that doesn’t immediately result in revenue. R&D is bad, marketing is good.
This makes me think it’s time to stop paying maintenance, install 2018 and run it until they switch the activation servers off, by which time I might have transitioned to something else. The fluids were a nice surprise, but this makes me think of them as a parting gift.
Yeah, mine is up for renewal end of Jan.
Seems to happen regularly just before I’m about to renew.
It was in the News, they shut down the Autodesk Development Sarl / Autodesk SA in Neuchatel/Switzerland. So, you can substract 250 employees from there..
And another guy is the one from the 3ds Max Learning Channel
https://youtu.be/hy7KjrXMIk0
It is just sooo sad… Autodesk buys and buys everything and everyone on the market, grows into a nonsense large company, and then lays off people, stops developing apps, shuts down applications one by one and essentially stops/slows the development of 3d tech. We could have had a healthy competition on the market, people doing R&D, new ideas poping out, new techs, everyone earns money but noooooooo… adesk must screw everything up. This type of business management should be punishable by federal law.
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Hi, if you are on 3dsmax and want to convert to Houdini, we have our little conversion group on facebook.
Just search Houdini For Maxers on facebook. You can ask questions about how to do things in Houdini with 3dsmax terminology . People will reply.
Yes we will!
Like!
(the “Like!” was ment for the comment of Logan Lance)
sorry I meant, I agree 😀
Glad we pirate both Autodesk and Adobe, the only ones worth are those lifetime licenses