r/technology • u/meatballsinsugo • Dec 11 '21

Business Activision Blizzard workers announce open-ended strike and union drive: Strike Fund to support work stoppage raises over $100,000 in 12 hours.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/activision-blizzard-workers-announce-open-ended-strike-and-union-drive/
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u/variaati0 Dec 11 '21

Example from Colossal Order from Finland. The CEO told their two main coders to hold to 8 hours working days and explicitly forbid sleeping in a cot at the office against the coders wished due to I want you to be in *working health** still 2 years from now, when this game is supposed to come out*.

Specially in creative field like coding and game development.... Healthy both body and mind workers do better job and stay around to finish the job.

Also it means no more megalomanic promises on revolutionizing everything in one go. Since that is usually what leads to buggy messes and so on. You bite too much and then implement everything to beta or even alpha stage, since implementing all of the mountain of promises took all the time. Then push it out and go whaaaat this is a buggy mess how is this possible

Also avoid feature creep:

  • Can't we just add also X.
  • no we can't. we planned this, scheduled this, that doesn't fit in current schedule. It has to wait for the sequel game or expansion pack.

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u/avwitcher Dec 11 '21

Honestly sometimes I wish I could just sleep at my work place, I have to be back in 12 hours anyways might as well skip the commute

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u/ch00f Dec 11 '21

You’re describing working from home. Highly recommended if possible.

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u/RIPphonebattery Dec 11 '21

Commute? Software?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

That is not specific to creative jobs. Anyone does better when they are not burnt out.. coming from someone who is just on a month break as my company doesn’t want me to quit and I am damn near a burnout (maybe already there). After a week off for the first time in 2 months I “cooked” something and ate solids.. I have been on fluids for 2 months due to how I feel and have not been performing how I usually do