‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.
They still get 2 days of home office then! /s
“please come to the office so you can experience the time crunch without the comfort of your own home”
Please quit so we don’t get into the news for firing a lot of you.
Dead Sea Effect
So Rockstar workers are being asked to take a major pay cut, significant decrease in quality of life, massively increased chance of death (driving is the most dangerous thing we do by far), and a huge chunk of free time removed from every work day from commuting that could be time spent with family or loved ones….
People with families cost more, they always want time off to do ‘stuff’. Truly dedicated employees forgo families, time off for ‘stuff’. The best employees will spend a good portion of their money just to come back to the office, just because it’s demanded.
Signed, Management
Stealth layoffs strike again.
Does anyone keep a list of words/phrases used in the world and what they actually mean?
Yup it’s called the dictionary
Epic
I hope this really motivates workers at Rockstar to organize.
The whole tech industry especially games has needed to unionize for ages now
When ITA?
How to lose top talent in one easy step. I’m hoping smaller startups are taking notes and hiring these guys for remote work.
They haven’t had any talent in about a decade.
“Rockstar Games announces more delays to launch of GTA6”
Fuck you rockstar and fuck you too take two
You guys are buying games??
Anyone have a non-paywalled link?
Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.
In an email to staff on Wednesday reviewed by Bloomberg, Rockstar Head of Publishing Jenn Kolbe said the decision was made for productivity and security reasons. The company has faced several security breaches including a massive dump of early footage from the new Grand Theft Auto and an early trailer that leaked in December.
Kolbe wrote that the company also found “tangible benefits” from in-person work. “Making these changes now puts us in the best position to deliver the next Grand Theft Auto at the level of quality and polish we know it requires, along with a publishing roadmap that matches the scale and ambition of the game,” she wrote.
Return-to-office mandates have been a hot topic across various industries since the pandemic forced myriad employees to work from home. More recently, many employers have asked staff to return to the office for two or three days a week. A study last month found that remote work did not have an impact on productivity.
The issue has been particularly controversial among video-game workers thanks to the volatility of the industry and its lack of a centralized workforce. Many of 2023’s biggest video-game hits, such as Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 from Insomniac Games, were developed remotely.
This security they mention is ridiculous. They have billions they can use to secure workstations and increase security for their systems. Many large companies managed to do this already… even without near limitless cash. So to me this smells like BS.
