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  "path": "/weak-job-security-risks-an-industry-brain-drain-opinion",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-17T15:03:44.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gamesindustry.biz",
  "tags": [
    "Skills",
    "Layoffs",
    "Jobs",
    "fears of a consumer-spending-led recession",
    "price rises driven by component scarcity",
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  "textContent": "We talk a lot about the major challenges that the games business currently faces due to external economic factors, from fears of a consumer-spending-led recession through to price rises driven by component scarcity. That focus can sometimes overshadow other looming challenges – none of which, I would argue, is more potentially damaging and destabilising than the long-term impacts on industry staffing as a result of the past few years of massive layoffs.\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Weak job security risks an industry brain drain | Opinion"
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