Ubisoft reportedly fire Assassin's Creed designer who spoke out publicly against return-to-office, as union reps call for CEO to resign

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An Assassin's Creed designer who publicly spoke out against Ubisoft's return-to-office mandate claims the company have now fired him. Developer David Michaud-Cromp posted on LinkedIn last week that he'd been put on unpaid disciplinary leave after recently criticising the policy change on the social media platform.

If you're out of the loop, Ubisoft have recently revealed plans to push remote staff back into offices amid a bloodbath of game cancellations, restructuring and voluntary redundancies. The company intend to have employees return to working in-office five days a week, with an annual allowance of work-from-home days. All of these moves have understandably not gone down well with French unions, who've subsequently called strike action.

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