Increased American operations for online games, global network infrastructure, and growth of motion capture technologies. are all causes for these new positions to be available. The total investments made in these positions amount to about $373 million CAD ($363 million USD) through 2020.
Two major reasons to this sudden growth of employment are the changes made to the Quebec tax code which seems to benefit Ubisoft financially and a financial contribution of $9.9 million CAD ($9.6 million USD) was made to the company. Once these jobs are created Ubisoft Montreal will have a total of 3,500 people in employment. These new positions include community and network management, mathematicians, business analysts, monetization experts, and marketing personnel.
Ubisoft has been operating in Quebec since 1997. The company’s long relationship with the Canadian province may have played a role in this positive expansion. The state of New York has also seen an interest in expanding its games development, but nothing has been confirmed as of yet.