{"id":14624,"date":"2009-02-13T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14624"},"modified":"2009-02-13T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:08:16","slug":"gonzo-to-reduce-staff-by-100-over-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/gonzo-to-reduce-staff-by-100-over-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzo to Reduce Staff By 100 Over Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gdh1.jpg\" alt=\"Gonzo to Reduce Staff By 100 Over Five Years\" title=\"Gonzo to Reduce Staff By 100 Over Five Years\" width=\"450\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gdh1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gdh1-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japanese anime news site AnimeAnime <a href=\"http:\/\/animeanime.jp\/biz\/archives\/2009\/02\/gdh14.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Gonzo Digimation Holdings will restructure its Gonzo anime production studio subsidiary by reducing staff from 130 present employees to just 30 over a five year period. GDH hopes that the reduction will return Gonzo to profitability. Meanwhile, GDH will shift its business priority away from anime production to its online game development operations.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzo has faced financial instability for some time. Last September, GDH received a 1 billion yen investment from Iwakaze Capital. Two months later, Gonzo announced plans to half its planned number of anime productions. Last December, GDH asked for 50 employees to voluntarily retire.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-02-12\/gonzo-to-restructure-reduce-staff-count-from-130-to-30\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese anime news site AnimeAnime reports that Gonzo Digimation Holdings will restructure its Gonzo anime production studio subsidiary by reducing staff from 130 present employees to just 30 over a five year period. GDH hopes that the reduction will return Gonzo to profitability. Meanwhile, GDH will shift its business priority away from anime production to [&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-14624","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\/14624","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=14624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}