WotC 3% Of Hasbro's Workforce Laid Off

In recent weeks, WotC's Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford both left the company--they have both now joined Critical Role's Darrington Press. Dungeons & Dragons VP Jess Lanzillo also announced her departure this week, and Todd Kenreck revealed that he had been laid off.

While this is a mix of voluntary departures and lay-offs, it seems that these folks are not alone. 3% of Hasbro's global workforce has been laid off, according to the Wall Street Journal. That amounts to about 150 of its 5,000-strong staff.

In April, Hasbro warned that the current US tariffs would lead to layoffs.

In 2023, Hasbro cut nearly 2,000 staff, including Mike Mearls and in 2024 let go "less than 100" employees at WotC. Earlier this year, 90% of D&D's Project Sigil team was laid off, including Andy Collins.

 

[Jd Smith1]

I've been hearing gloom & doom since I was a kid and we had drills in grade school where we trooped down into the basement to practice for when the nukes flew. 'When', not 'if'.

There was an impending ice age predicted back then, and oil was due to run out in the distant date of 2000. Oh, and the next war was going to be over cropland.

Interestingly, if you go back to periodicals from 1825, they were plenty of various predicted trends that spelt doom for mankind.

Nobody predicted that people would happily pay for the privilege of carrying a device with a microphone, camera, and GPS tracker accessible by a corporation, though.