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NEWS: Funimation Restructures with Layoffs in Several Depts.

But you don't know how many people where in the affected departments. Worse case scenario could be that the 2 known people involved were the only ones in their departments.

It's not like these distributors are huge corporations and can afford to layoff people. Someone or some other department has to pick up the slack now.

It sort of sounds as though they probably reduced "duplication" (meaning similar but different functions) Sort of like I still don't understand why the Department of Defense needed 500 billion in 2008 while we budgeted $145 billion on the global war on terror & 34 billion on Homeland Security. (Couldn't the Defense people handle it all?). In fat times maybe it sounds like a good idea to have people devoted to specific things, but in thin times it's better to cut back.
It's tough on the people who lose their jobs, but hopefully its been as small a layoff as possible. Some restructuring doesn't equal layoffs. If they had some openings, they maybe moved some bodies over to other spots. We have about 15 people whose jobs have been eliminated, but most have apparently slipped over to unfilled slots. Hopefully this is what Funi managed.

Voice talent usually aren't staff--they're usually contract work, I believe.

Good for Funi! It sounds like they put a lot of thought into how to do things the right way, rather than burning through cash and throwing up their hands, they tried a different strategy: stay in business. My hats are off to them. They put the customers first.

For once, testor and I are on the same page. FUNi is good at bs'ing its stability with all those recent acquisitions, but it's probably staking it's future on its capital, rather than on its investments.

Well tis the season, everyone's doing lay-offs this time of year. My company just did theirs Monday. About ten people that I know of.

A couple layoffs isn't something to panic about, even if it does follow a bunch of layoffs earlier. People leave companies all the time, sometimes two are laid off at once. Usually this means nothing, but it can mean the company is looking to sell itself. However, I don't see that as the case.

With all the recent aquisitions it almost looks as if Funimation is becoming the new Geneon. But it appears fairly clear what they are trying to do. Instead of trying to sell shows to TV they are running them on the Internet first, then when customers want to buy the DVDs they can get them from Funimation. Not a bad model, and probably about the right time to try something like that.

However, that's not the sort of model that would need a large staff; just enough to manage the servers and webpages, and some sales staff to take orders. That would likely account for the downsizing. But if it works out for them they could be hiring on new staff in a few years.

Hmm, so even Funimation, one of the two big dogs left standing after the recession (VIZ being the other), is not prone to reducing their labor to cut costs and making ends meet

Navarre Corp (Fun's parent) terminated its Chief Operating Officer two days ago and has no plans of finding a replacement anytime soon. That's some belt-tightening in a tough economy. Good luck to everyone at Flower Mound, TX.

I heard it was 20 people.

I was canned August 1st, and I feel it was more about budget than the paper thin write up.

They won't layoff any VA's or Directors... they already moved them to contract work =) You don't get laid off then, the work dries up.

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