nathanosaurus
Neo Member
I don't get it. I realize some overtime is sometimes needed but 80 hours a week every week? Why not just hire another person and split the workload at that point? Crazy hours like that sound mega expensive on top of everything else that comes with it.
I feel exactly the same. Working 80 hours should never be the norm. If you have staff regularly working 80 hours then that's a two man job and you need to hire another person. I get that that's expensive for a company but if the case is it's too expensive for a company then maybe your company can't afford to make video games after all.
I work in TV and film post production and average about 40-45 hours a week. If a schedule is too tight then we tell the people that make them and they get adjusted. I very rarely work past 6 o'clock. And even then I'll try and do stuff remotely after my children are in bed so I can still get home at a reasonable hour and spend time with them.
I realise I'm quite lucky in the kind of work I do and not everybody can be in the same situation but these companies need standing up to otherwise it'll never change.