Must be the most pointless thing in the world, and terrible for the environment, have everyone travel in separate cars to work in the exact same way as they could at home.
Add in the fact there’s always 1 person not there or with a client/customer based elsewhere, so all your calls and meetings are still done through video.
I love going into the office my one day a week. It’s a new, less comfortable place to sit on Teams meetings! /s
Yeah but think about the property prices… Rich people losing money. What a tragedy.
I don’t see that rockstar is mandating people to commute by car, this is the UK, they have public transport
That doesn’t fix anywhere near all of the problems with this.
I never claimed it did?
By using it as a reply and an excuse, it implies it alleviates concerns.
Excuse?
I simply pointed out a ridiculous statement, not that I think the policy Rockstar is pushing is good.
Not feasible or possible everywhere, I certainly couldn’t commute by public transport where I live it’d take double the time, my point wasn’t directed at this specific case but the force to offices in general and there’s no doubt huge amounts of people are using cars.
I never claimed it was feasable for everyone, but neither are Rockstar forcing everyone to drive
Nobody says they are. You brought it up. It was a general statement about the overall story, not this specific one.
I brought it up as a counter to the ridiculous claim that everyone in the Rockstar office will need to drive to work in the UK.
I get that people are pissed off, but that reason isn’t acurate
You seem to be making up arguments then ignoring them, really odd
I have a friend who works in the R* office in Massachusetts. The whole fucking company sounds like an abject nightmare to work for. Between the Stasi-esque HR lady that wanders around making notes of who is at their desks, to the legions of indoctrinated kool-aid drinkers, onto the just bizarre behind the scenes decisions and poor management.
He’s been dreading this announcement for a while now, and it may just be the one thing that will rip the scales off the otherwise creepily loyal workers.
Corporate America can absolutely be a cult. I’ve jumped around a fair bit, but you can always tell who the lifers are. Think the company is their savior, love the CEO even though they only met them once, go to all the functions, it’s sad to me. Most of those lifers were making much less than me because I jumped around to bump my salary, they are constantly passed over for promotions because “now just isn’t the time”, and usually they ignore their home life and never take PTO.
Not just corporate America, corporations around the world have it.
The article also links to another interesting article that begins by summarizing the disadvantages some employees experienced when the initial switch to working from home happened.
- Balancing work and kids at home;
- Finding space for a home office and learning new tools;
- Workdays at home alone;
- The line between work and life blurred.
Number 1 & 2 should not be an issue for most people now. Number 3 & 4 are personal and should not be used as an excuse to implement a company wide policy on everybody.
What does this say to the employee who disagrees with the company return to office “culture”? It says to them they aren’'t welcome here. Imagine turning on your computer and being locked out. That’s what happened during the Twitter X Corp takeover.
Everyone working a desk job with a computer in a physical office space together is just about as practical as a large group meeting where one or two people speak with no input from others.
Some people may need to be in an office/meeting sometimes but most do not usually and it’s a waste of time for the employee and a waste of money for the company. Just my opinion. ;)
It’s also basically a pay cut and a huge loss of benefits. What does Rockstar have to say about that?
All unions should be taking up the issue of the right to remote work.
All tech workers should join a union first … but yes, agreed.
Don’t most union workers currently work in jobs that don’t make sense to be remote like manufacturing? I wish there was a tech workers union that could push for this. I’m no union expert though
That would require that office workers unionize. Which, while hopefully being more common nowadays, is still seen as antithetical to most office workers.
are they just trying to get some people to quit before they do expensive layoffs
This will always be about power and useless managers feeling they aren’t important.
Or it’s a layoff without actually doing the layoff process because they don’t want to pay severance, and it would look bad in the headlines when they just announced GTA6.
Tbh, game studios often require special equipment such as dev kits and high-end PCs for development. It makes sense that they might not want to send this equipment home, especially if it is an unreleased console"s dev kit. Game studios honestly seem more justified in not having WFH
Dev kits are accessed remotely. High-end PC 's are accessed remotely. Everything is done remotely. Hardware stays on-site. Source? Am game dev who works remotely full-time, using 4K streaming.
Maybe the tools have changed since last I worked in the industry (or maybe we weren’t good at using all the features), but I never saw that anyone had remote access to the devkits. I could remote into my workstation, but it surely was not the best way to work.
Yeah, Microsoft Remote Desktop is relatively slow but works for most workflows. For more demanding/responsive stuff with higher framerates (games), try Parsec (https://parsec.app/), it’s great. It has controller pass-through as well, at least for sony. I’m not sure about other brands.
