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At the latest GALA conference<\/a>, held in Valencia, Marina Ilari and I had the opportunity to speak about the secret sauce behind our team-building strategy. Our objective was to share our approach to working with remote, distributed, and multicultural teams, and we used one of our largest in-house teams, consisting of more than 100 LQAs and coordinators, as a case study. This presentation sparked many stimulating conversations with localization and video game professionals, which motivated us to write a series of blog posts that will explore the takeaways presented that day in greater detail.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Transitional Phase for the Video Game and Localization Industries <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The video game industry and localization providers specializing in this niche are experiencing a quite painful transitional phase. In less than a year, between 2023 and 2024, we have witnessed the rise of amazing AI and technology developments and, at the same time, a massive wave of layoffs. Though not necessarily interconnected, these two developments have added unpredictability to our daily lives. Suddenly, fourteen to fifteen thousand people in the video game industry lost their jobs, and that\u2019s not even counting layoffs by third-party service providers, like LSPs, that have also been affected by budget cuts. There are many theories about why this is happening. Probably all of them contain some fact and some fiction. But, at this point, that doesn\u2019t matter. People matter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, how do we prepare ourselves?  <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How do we prepare our people for what\u2019s coming next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, you may be wondering, what is coming next? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is, we don\u2019t know. What we do know is that there\u2019s always a possibility of change. It can be a drastic change, like the one we are going through, or it can be a change that creates more jobs, more opportunities, new ideas. We just don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, whatever the future might bring, we believe that we need to get ready for it today. We need to prepare our teams and put the focus back on our people.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Futureproofing: A Collaborative Effort <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With the goal of keeping humans at the core, we want to share what has worked for us when futureproofing our team, and hopefully help other organizations going through the same shifts. This blog series attempts to collaborate with other remote, distributed and multicultural teams that are in formation or already set up, with the objective of safeguarding people’s well-being above all else. We hope this sparks conversations and that other teams are willing to share their best practices so that we can continue to take care of each other and prepare for a future that looks rather uncertain right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, how will we do this? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Each week we\u2019ll cover a different topic, such as:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. <\/a>Building Team Identity: A Blueprint for Collaborative Achievement<\/a>\n