{"id":2844,"date":"2017-10-19T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/307936"},"modified":"2017-10-19T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:56:00","slug":"harmonix-lays-off-14-in-bid-to-reduce-overhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/harmonix-lays-off-14-in-bid-to-reduce-overhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmonix lays off 14 in bid to &#8216;reduce overhead&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unfortunate bit of news, Gamasutra has learned that Boston-based developer Harmonix Music Systems has laid off 14 employees from multiple departments today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The news comes just under a month after the company released its music mixing game <em>DropMix<\/em>. In a statement to Gamasutra, a Harmonix representative says that the layoffs were made \u201cto reduce our overhead and align our business with our current development slate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a difficult decision and we\u2019re grateful to our friends and former colleagues for their many contributions,\u201d the statement continues. \u201cWe\u2019re working to ensure that they\u2019re taken care of as we make this change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harmonix did confirm that <em>Rock Band<\/em> and <em>DropMix<\/em> remain \u201cin full development\u201d and that the company intends to \u00a0reveal more information about its unannounced projects in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know has been affected by these layoffs, you can <a href=\"mailto:news@gamasutra.com?subject=Harmonix%20Layoffs\">email Gamasutra<\/a> to share your story confidentially.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unfortunate bit of news, Gamasutra has learned that Boston-based developer Harmonix Music Systems has laid off 14 employees from multiple departments today.\u00a0 The news comes just under a month after the company released its music mixing game DropMix. In a statement to Gamasutra, a Harmonix representative says that the layoffs were made \u201cto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}