It feels like the gaming industry is just a series of never-ending layoffs, as we’ve come to expect huge waves of job losses from the likes ofXboxandPlayStation. In fact,Xbox laid off thousands of workers earlier this month, and we’restill assessing the damagethis has done to the industry.
With this in mind, we don’t often get a story about how a company is not only growing its workforce, but is managing to keep its workers sticking around for years to come. Well, that’s very much the case withNintendo, who is retaining workers for 14.4 years on average in Japan, and 10 years in the United States.
Nintendo Has A Low Turnover Rate, Keeping Its Employees For At Least A Decade
As reported byGo Nintendo, the company has recently released new data on its workforce, giving us these updated details. You can check it out in fullhere, but the key takeaway rate is that Nintendo employees are sticking with the studio for years, and there is an incredibly low turnover rate.
Here are some of the details from the report:
This isn’t to say that Nintendo has always avoided the scandals of other industry giants. In 2022, it was claimed thatcontractors at Nintendo of America were being mistreated and underpaid. Nintendo was quick to deny these allegations, but president Doug Bowser later said thatthe claims would be reviewed. The only thing that can be said is that we don’t get the regular layoffs we see from Xbox and PlayStation.
