2024-03-01 05:33:17
As the development team Rockstar Games officially announced that “Grand Theft Auto VI” (Grand Theft Auto VI), which will be released in 2025, has entered the final stage of development, it has decided to recall development members to strengthen security management and prevent the recurrence of hacking leaks. However, this “final preparation” unexpectedly caused dissatisfaction among internal employees.
According to reports, Rockstar Games’ development employees not only expressed their protest to the company once morest the forced recall work, but the Independent Workers’ union of Great Britain (IWGB) also publicly supported it, criticizing Rockstar Games’s forced actions that deprived employees of their jobs. Due workplace benefits. In addition, IWGB pointed out that Rockstar Games had promised employees a flexible work schedule, and the company should not break its promise and ignore employees’ workplace overwork and life arrangements.
In fact, as early as last year, IWGB received a petition signed by 170 Rockstar Games employees, expressing their opposition to the company’s mandatory requirement for employees to return to work within three days. Now, in preparation for the final development of “Grand Theft Auto VI”, team members are required to return to the company five days a week starting in April 2024, which once once more caused dissatisfaction among employees.
Some employees also said that the company first set up offices far away from their homes (the main development location for “Grand Theft Auto VI” is Rockstar North in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK), and now it recklessly requires employees to overtime regardless of their feelings. Working overtime, they had to ask for help from the IWGB to figure out whether they might change the rules of Rockstar Games within these six weeks.
It is worth mentioning that IWGB also mentioned that Rockstar Games executives currently refuse to communicate with employees on issues, and have even requested that the remote office system be forcibly closed starting from April 15, 2024, and its development employees are not allowed to choose to develop at home. Work.
Most players may also know that in the past, Rockstar Games was repeatedly accused of exploitative practices by employees due to the development of the “Grand Theft Auto” series and “Red Dead Redemption”, although there were subsequent media reports. It was pointed out that Rockstar has made appropriate adjustments to the workplace environment to avoid a similar situation from happening once more when developing “Grand Theft Auto VI”, but due to the company’s breach of trust, development members once once more protested in unison.
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