{"id":14454,"date":"2009-01-22T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14454"},"modified":"2009-01-22T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T18:30:10","slug":"bandai-announces-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/bandai-announces-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandai Announces Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bandai Entertainment President Ken Iyadomi has confirmed that the American anime distribution company is planning to layoff an undetermined number of its 19 full-time employees in response to, &#8220;The downturn in the DVD market sell through.&#8221; The employees to be laid off will be retained as contracted consultants for the duration of their current development and production projects to ensure that Bandai&#8217;s product release schedule is not altered. Iyadomi has confirmed that Bandai Entertainment will continue to license and release &#8220;strong titles,&#8221; however, there &#8220;could be fewer titles&#8221; released in the future than the company has previously released.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-01-21\/bandai-to-restructure-with-staff-layoffs\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandai Entertainment President Ken Iyadomi has confirmed that the American anime distribution company is planning to layoff an undetermined number of its 19 full-time employees in response to, &#8220;The downturn in the DVD market sell through.&#8221; The employees to be laid off will be retained as contracted consultants for the duration of their current development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}