Ubisoft Entertainment SA

In October 2026 Ubisoft imposed a mandatory 5-day-per-week in-office policy across its studios. Workers said the company gave inadequate justification for ending remote-work arrangements. Employees at Ubisoft Milan staged a six-day strike over the policy, and more than 750 employees at Ubisoft Montreal signed a petition opposing the mandatory in-office requirement. The policy landed alongside a separate wave of layoffs and studio closures (previously recorded), compounding reported low morale, with workers describing feeling 'devalued and alienated.'

In September 2026 Ubisoft closed its Winnipeg (Canada) and Belgrade (Serbia) studios and narrowed its Barcelona studio to work solely on the Rainbow Six franchise, the latest in a string of cuts that included closing Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Halifax and canceling six games (including a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake) in January 2026, 200 Paris job cuts the same month, and 40 cuts to the Splinter Cell remake team in Toronto in February 2026, reducing total headcount from over 20,000 in 2023 to 16,590. The cuts followed CEO Yves Guillemot's January 21, 2026 announcement ending remote work and mandating a five-day in-office return without prior consultation with works councils, funded by a EUR200 million cost-cutting plan employees learned of via press release. Five Ubisoft unions called an international strike for February 10-12, 2026, with one union statement saying management was 'push[ing] us out by making our working conditions unbearable' rather than taking financial responsibility for layoffs.

A Federal District (Brasília) court (1ª Vara da Infância e da Juventude do DF) ruled on June 9, 2026, in case 0701554-83.2021.8.07.0013, that Ubisoft and ten other gaming and platform companies failed to protect children from randomized 'loot box' purchase mechanics, in a civil action brought by Brazil's National Association of Child and Adolescent Defense Centers (ANCED). Ubisoft was fined R$10 million (~$1.96M) over loot-box mechanics in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and Ghost Recon Wildlands, as part of a R$298M (~$58.4M) collective judgment against the named companies. The court ordered Ubisoft, within 90 days, to display explicit randomness warnings, disclose item-drop probabilities, deploy reliable age verification blocking minors from loot-box purchases, and provide refunds for purchases made by minors without parental authorization. The ruling is subject to appeal.