Our recent discussion on unpaid overtime raised the potential need for developers to organize in order to protect their work-life balance. We followed-up by talking to BECTU representative, Mr. Willie Lesslie (WLesslie@bectu.org.uk). Based in the UK, it is one of the few unions actively representing the concerns of game developers. The transcript […]
While understanding managements practices in terms of overtime is essential, the general passivity of affected personnel in response is also worthy of examination. Game developers have yet to start pushing back in any significant way. A few exceptions are worth noting, such as high profile cases, the work of the IGDA, and a few companies […]
The amount of overtime a company demands of its employees mirrors the quality of its management, the least effective “needing” the most overtime. Ideally, management will bring a game in on time, on-target feature wise, with no amount of overtime. Although most industry veterans know that this ideal is rarely achieved, we argue that in […]
As previously discussed in the Game Developer Manifesto, the systematic, generalized recourse, on the part of industry employers, to sustained unpaid overtime remains one of the most reprehensible practice affecting game developers. By sustained we mean more than a few days or a week at most. While some relative progress has been made since […]
Two class action suits dealing with overtime disputes in the IT industry have recently been settled. The first lawsuit was brought by 800 employees of Siebel (a software company recently purchased by Oracle). Siebel was accused of violating US overtime laws for nearly 6 years (Jan 2000 to Oct 2005), and settled the suit for […]
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