Ah, the international sport of "look at me! The solution is so easy!"
Sure man. Keep telling yourself that you know better when you don't know squat.
Because it's that easy. Every first world country is laughing at US work ethics and how there people are exploited to the end of the world for maximum gains and they are to dumb to even realize it themselves.
U guys got nothing. No vacation days, no healthcare, no sickdays, no extra money like a 13th month or vacation money, no parental leave, no maximum length of work week.
U guys already work more then anybody else in the first world developed country's by far and now u want to add crunch hours with it because fuck your workers.
Then u got those idiots that say, welp at least we don't die from cobalt poisoning so i guess being a slave to a company is great. Because it could be worse just look at 3rd world country's.
Look david jaffe is afraid of unions because he is afraid everything disappearing overseas.
The question he should ask himself why are they not already moving oversea's to start with? wages in second and 3rd world country's are far far far lower. The reason CD projekt red can push high quality games like witcher 3 out for a fraction of the budget of other games is because wages are non existent.They sit in a country that's laughable on worker rights. So why are all the major game company's not shifting towards it? Or downgrading there worker rights even more to fight against markets they can't compete against anyway because they function in entire different environments. average polish wage is a 5th of that of a american as example.
Why is EA not located in india or china or mexico or poland to create there entire games? can't be that hard to make a new fifa.
If they wanted to flee they would already have done it, which makes that whole point useless.
What workers need to do is make unions that cover everything on worker level in all segments together instead of your own little bubble that lobby and force laws into the country that protects people from being exploited on a country wide solution. Because if you leave it up to the company's u get 8 month crunch time exploit scenario's seen as normal. Basically you clearly can't leave it up to company's. These company's have no limit to there greed. And its not like the top doesn't pay themselves 15 million in fucking yearly salary's or make massive bank while they are at it. While the workers gets told they are so important its almost like they cure cancer ( even those have normal worker hours ), but but but now work 80 hours a week mate. And they even believe it on top of it because they are to fucking dumb to realize the situation they are in.
American Average Work Hours:
- At least 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week; the U.S. does not.
- In the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week.
- According to the ILO, “Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers.”
- Using data by the U.S. BLS, the average productivity per American worker has increased 400% since 1950. One way to look at that is that it should only take one-quarter the work hours, or 11 hours per week, to afford the same standard of living as a worker in 1950 (or our standard of living should be 4 times higher). Is that the case? Obviously not. Someone is profiting, it’s just not the average American worker.
American Paid Vacation Time & Sick Time:
Here a example of how easy it is:
Guerrilla Games wants to release games faster
According to CEO Hermen Hulst, Guerrilla hopes to shorten the development time for big games like Horizon, which took around six and a half years to create (and certainly didn't look any worse for it). "We want to release games in two or three years, both new titles and games based on existing titles," he said. New faces aside, the extra space will be used for audio and motion capture.
Guess it does work.
Guess where they operate in amsterdam
Guess what rules they have to apply towards?
Working hours
According to Dutch law you are allowed to work a maximum of 9 hours a day and 45 hours a week. However, a person is only allowed to work 2080 hours a year, thus the average working week is 40 hours. The working week is usually Monday to Friday, depending on the type of work. Also, there is a legal minimum of one day's rest a week, normally Sunday
Go ask dutch employee's if they want that protection to be removed and they will laugh at you in your face or think u are mentally ill, or some kind of slave wager.
Your boss will straight up harass u if you don't take days of because they get massive fined otherwise.
And instead of moving more hours into a week they are busy with decreasing it, get more parental leave etc.
