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Game Developer Now Offering Employees Overtime

Posted by Zonk on from the ea-spouse-cries-with-relief dept.

Via Joystiq comes a story from the European game development website Develop, saying that the UK developer Free Radical will be offering employees overtime for crunch mode sessions. "Steve Ellis of Free Radical says the days of 'bonuses that pay off your mortgage are long gone' and that they've 'decided to start paying people for the work that they do -- even when that work is outside their normal hours.' Ellis says that the industry as a whole will eventually go this way, but they prefer to do it sooner rather than later. Although there are so many companies who are guilty of not paying their employees for working extra hours, EA gets picked on more often than not because of the infamous EA Spouse saga."

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  1. About the "EA Spouse"... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The current mandatory hours are 9am to 10pm -- seven days a week -- with the occasional Saturday evening off for good behavior (at 6:30pm). This averages out to an eighty-five hour work week.


    One of two things is going on: 1) your spouse is an unemployable moron and this is the only job he/she can keep or 2) your spouse hates you. Given the rest of the whining in the original post, I'd bet it's #2.

    You don't like working conditions at company X? Go work for company Y!