* Rockstar Games announced on 28th February 2024, that workers will have to be
in the office 5 days a week from 15th April 2024 as remote working provisions
are withdrawn for the majority of staff.
* The news comes one year after 170 Rockstar Games workers in the UK signed a
petition opposing mandatory 3-day office work, in one of the UK games
industry’s biggest ever trade union actions.
* Workers belonging to the IWGB Game Workers Union accuse Rockstar of “broken
promises”, an
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.
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.
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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.
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
You seem to be making up arguments then ignoring them, really odd
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
I love going into the office my one day a week. It’s a new, less comfortable place to sit on Teams meetings! /s