If you don't compete on cost and your production becomes to expensive you go bust. Just look at the 8000 Peugeot car workers who just lost their jobs yesterday, they all had the right to 35 hour working weeks, with long mandated holidays and retirement at 60. The only problem is that made the cars to expensive to buy and the plants closed. Rights cost money and if the cost of your rights makes the product to expensive to compete then you lose your job. The same thing happened to the US car industry and they got a massive taxpayer bailout and in return the workers had reduced benefits. If they hadn't agreed to reduction of their rights they would be out of job. The games industry isn't going to get tax payer bailouts, it doesn't employ enough poeple in vital swing states, if they become uncompetitive their jobs will be in china and India buy the end of the week.Dark Togashi said:
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You very much speak truth. As a former developer and a technical project manager, it is the company's responsibility to make sure the services they offer make sense to market and for its employees.albino boo said:
When employees are proud of what they do, they'll make something come true, satisfaction is worth more than money. Granted you HAVE to be taken care of, or working there will not make sense. It's a hard balance, but companies that don't outgrow their thinking will find ways of balance.
I've often found rewarding teams with freedoms like the ability to create their own specs, their own daily schedules, passion projects, that are earned on merit is worth way more than money to employee retention. You *should* pay proper market value of course, but everyone is motivated differently.
Employees are especially motivated to see their management working right along side them during crunch time because it's a company goal they believe in. Not some back-breaking chore to make some one else richer.
Of course, the only way to make real money is to be a corporate cock-sucker, so what do I know. Just ask EA/Activision how they do it.
Who wants to bet that Mark Rein goes home to his family at 6:00 every day without fail? This guy wouldn't know overtime work if it bit him on the ass.