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It's hard to pin down project efficiency metrics if you're evaluating everyone individually. The true measure of project performance is the productivity of the team, not the sum of the parts. One person may be efficient at some tasks working in isolation, but rarely is work structured in such a way that everyone can work without direct dependencies. Sometimes you just have to get in front of a whiteboard and work through a solution with the team, and much of the time that needs to be ad-hoc communication that remote meeting apps don't do a good job at facilitating. Especially for interactive software or entertainment projects like video games.
Personally, I need the energy of an office environment. Home just ain't it.
I am exactly the same way. My home is my home and the last thing I want to think about is work. I am a completely different person at work.
Just imagine what happens if we can make those who can handle WFH into the same company...
Yups, its like working out in homegym when u are alone vs in actual gym with ur bro's and hot chicks that pretend to not watch , u get dat +10 motivation buff right away xD
I'm sure it's at least 80% jealousy and retardedness because they think human existence is made for corpos to suck them dry. Spend many hours in traffic just to suck them dry in person.
It will also have a bunch of weirdos crying as if expecting you to show up at your workplace would constitute some sort of fundamental violation of human rights.
That's understandable, for sure. I've worked in tech for most of my life, but I would imagine that Game Development is a different beast remotely.
Speaking for myself, I'm not "against" working from home. Hell, I'd pick working from home too, if it was an option offered to me doing some office work.
And how are knitting circles and ball pits going to achieve that?
Corporate greed is responsible for shit games, not WFH. But most power users of the internet are rich, so fat fucking chance of that being solved anytime soon.
That's odd that someone would think it's a human right or it was owed to anyone.
Yeah, I'll never understand the anti-WFH thing, but I've constantly seen it lumped in with "woke/progressive" discussions here or something similar. Hence people going straight to "LOL ENTITLED, LAZY, etc." realms. I've done it plenty of times because that was just the gig I had, and it worked out perfectly. But that's the thing, it isn't for everyone.
As someone that's been in the industry for awhile and has done both, I personally haven't experienced a difference. You'd think that being in office would be better for communication and everything. But when you have the right things set in place it can work out just fine. But that also may be because when I've worked remotely, I've worked with remote companies that have a team made up of people that have remote experience.
idk what industry u were working with but video games is compelty difrent beast as one thing can legit break the game and it needs instant fixes etc ,its a collective product not just 1 person project
But what is the difference between a guy sat in an office onsite sending another guy a teams message to another guy in an office onsite versus them both being at home and sending teams messages?
MachineGames asking more staff to move to full-time office work
"We know that we are a lot more efficient and a lot more collaborative in general when we're actually in the office together"
Return to the office and let go of the people asking for that nonsense in the workplace. Win-win.
I worked at major corporations designing software experiences for millions of users with large teams of developers, QA testers, designers, etc.
This is the real issue, 100%
I still work in games and am currently working for a remote studio with people all around the world. It's really not a completely different beast, as long as the communication is there, and the workflow is structured well. All patches and builds are tested before going live, and if something is broken (depending on what it is) you revert to a patch or build where it didn't break and figure out what did it. But that's something that can happen IN office or remote, so it makes no difference, the fix would be the same. The ONLY difference is face time. Which, yeah, face time is great, I love going to a physical office and in most cases prefer it. But where I live there aren't any physical game studios, and I'm unable to move to a different city, state, country, etc. So, I appreciate remote being an option, because if I wanna continue to work in games it's my only option currently.
Couldn't agree more.
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im so glad we have many women in the game industry ,it trulty is bettter workforce then video game nerds who slept in their officeU guys who are workoholics forgetting most of us doesnt give a damn if our work is excelllent/topnotch quality or just good enough/passable, we work just enough to not get fired, not to perform at our peak, if we did we wouldnt be sitting on safe salary 9 to 5 40h/week job but actually sacrifice our social life/family time/ mental and physical health and fund our own company instead xD
Some guys got that mindset, huge majority of women got that mindset too, and we wont change it no matter what so unless u guys sniff us out somehow we will keep doing what we doing waiting for retirement age
I will give u example of my dad, he earned decent salary compared to his less experienced/educated collegues from work but it was like rookie salary+50%, not 2-3x higher.
He decided to retire at 67 for the simple reason he had higher pension when retired vs what was offered to him for not retiring and working for another year or two, and guess what- they had to hire 4(!) women in order to do his job properly(yes, those 4 rookie women were anything but happy, had to work even on saturdays, but thats female workforce for u, tons of fake toxic positivity and hidden conflicts, terrible efficiency while having huge ego/being entitled af
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