Phil Elliott
09:18 (BST)
11/07/2008
CNET UK reveals staff lay-offs
CNET Networks UK has revealed to GamesIndustry.biz that it has recently undertaken a review of the company structure, and due to a challenging market has laid off a number of staff.
"We have recently reviewed the structure of our company," a spokesperson said. "Due to current market conditions and the changing needs of the business we reviewed our team structure to ensure we continue to operate a successful business.
"As a result we have made some staff cut backs, affecting a small number of CNET Networks' UK employees."
GamesIndustry.biz understands that the redundancies number less than ten employees, and are spread across the publisher's online brands, including GameSpot UK - whose news editor Emma Boyes has left the company.
It is believed that the move was prompted by a number of missed sales targets across the UK company. CNET Networks was recently acquired by CBS, and owns the GameSpot, CNET, Silicon and ZDNET brands, among others.
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