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Seems like Ubisoft is managing their employees just like every French consulting company is managing its consultants between projects. Why is it considered unorthodox? Is it because Ubisoft is a game editor and other editors never do that, or because they host their own projects with their own schedules, and therefore should be somewhat able to better reallocate their workforce?

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Probably because the way French consulting companies manage their employees is awful.

They're a reason they're called "meat sellers".

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Thanks to French Labour Laws, nobody hires anymore, except those consulting companies.

That's actually true and some big companies employ consultants from those consulting firms for couple of years - costing much more than a permanent or even contract employee would.

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