--- title: EA Employees Express Concerns Over Saudi Arabia Deal description: Some Electronic Arts employees in the US and Canada have anonymously raised concerns following the company's acquisition by a consortium including Saudi... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ea-employees-express-concerns-over-saudi-arabia-deal-tgsroxqat twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EA Employees Express Concerns Over Saudi Arabia Deal | daily.dev og:description: Some Electronic Arts employees in the US and Canada have anonymously raised concerns following the company's acquisition by a consortium including Saudi... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ea-employees-express-concerns-over-saudi-arabia-deal-tgsroxqat og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tgSrOxQaT.png og:image:alt: EA Employees Express Concerns Over Saudi Arabia Deal og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EA Employees Express Concerns Over Saudi Arabia Deal **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Some Electronic Arts employees in the US and Canada have anonymously raised concerns following the company's acquisition by a consortium including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. Their worries center on human rights issues tied to the new ownership, cultural clashes with EA's Western corporate norms, and fears that the deal lets Saudi Arabia's regime associate itself with a more progressive image. Workers also cited economic anxiety, saying limited job alternatives make it hard to simply quit despite discomfort with the buyout. EA has previously stated no immediate job changes or layoffs would follow the acquisition, though layoff concerns have resurfaced repeatedly without official clarification. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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