The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout

Re:The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout by pavlov on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @02:46PM (#9648071)

In Sweden (which is where the employees in question were), most workers are entitled to unemployment benefits of 80% of their full salary for 200 days, after which it's reduced to 70% for the next 100 days [1].

So a Swedish programmer will definitely be making much more than $350/week for almost a year while unemployed. Like someone else said, Mojang's employees did not take any real risks.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits_in_Sweden

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Re:The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout by vinkelhake on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @03:11PM (#9648222)

It's up to 80% of the full salary. While your typical Swedish programmer would get more than $350/week, they're not going to get 80% of their salary since they cap out well before that.

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Re:The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout by pavlov on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @03:42PM (#9648428)

Oh, you're right. I missed the part about the 680 SEK / day cap.

Is that per calendar day or workday? I guess calendar day. That means the average programmer would get about 50% of salary on unemployment. (Just taking a wild guess that a programmer in Sweden makes 40k SEK / month.)

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Re:The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout by sogen on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @05:30PM (#9649160)

Wow, quite a little bit different from folks in mexico: 0%. Zero. Nada.

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