EA: The Human Story (What Life is Like Working for EA)
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\My advice? Stop buying EA games until they get serious about treating their employees with some respect. At the end of the day we're all only human beings, and whilst some crunch time is acceptable, so is compensation for said crunch time.
I found this rather interesting link off Insert Credit
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An anonymous spouse of an anonymous Electronic Arts employee has posted a fairly gruesome LiveJournal entry, which details the working conditions of the industry giant's game designers. According to the article, which is freely distributable under the Creative Commons deed, EA's practices involve intentionally setting a "crunch time" for non-tardy projects, establishing mandatory eighty-five hour work weeks (though, as the article puts it, employees can go home early on Saturday night for "good behavior"), and a near-elimination of vacation time upon a project's completion. There are also quite a few interestingly anonymous comments already posted by both former and current EA employees in the Comments section.
An anonymous spouse of an anonymous Electronic Arts employee has posted a fairly gruesome LiveJournal entry, which details the working conditions of the industry giant's game designers. According to the article, which is freely distributable under the Creative Commons deed, EA's practices involve intentionally setting a "crunch time" for non-tardy projects, establishing mandatory eighty-five hour work weeks (though, as the article puts it, employees can go home early on Saturday night for "good behavior"), and a near-elimination of vacation time upon a project's completion. There are also quite a few interestingly anonymous comments already posted by both former and current EA employees in the Comments section.
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\My advice? Stop buying EA games until they get serious about treating their employees with some respect. At the end of the day we're all only human beings, and whilst some crunch time is acceptable, so is compensation for said crunch time.
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