Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize

Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by tracker1 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:38PM (#18992681)

I'm not a fan of unions either. That said, I won't work more than 40 hours in a week more than a handful of weeks out of the year. I'm 44yo now, and when I took my current job, I stated I only have about 1 crunch week a quarter in me. If I have to do more than one 40-50+ hour week a quarter, then it's not me that is the problem.

I don't work in gaming though. I would love to, but the pay for business development is frankly better with a lot less stress. I wouldn't mind seeing a push legislating that any salaried worker in a week must be granted an extra paid day off at 45 hours and each 5 hours above in a single week. That would stop, or at least compensate, the abuse.

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Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by hesdeadjim on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:05PM (#18992962)

I'm with you on the crunch limit, few weeks a year at most and even then anything beyond 50 hours is pointless from a productivity point of view.

Addressing overwork at the legislative level would get my support if there were a way to trade pain now for benefit later (e.g. your extra time off suggestion).

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Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by chottocharaii on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:16PM (#18993040)

and how do you get such things addressed at a legislative level?

Maybe unions can be useful after all!

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Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by tracker1 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:13PM (#18994020)

Are you suggesting that a significant portion of legislation is because of unions? Maybe a part of it, and probably so at the state level. As it stands, I shouldn't have to be in support of a union in order to support legislation.

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