* 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2024, that workers will have to be in the office 5 days a week from 15th April 2024 as remote working provisions are withdrawn for the majority of staff.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
  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    748·
    4 个月前

    I don’t see that rockstar is mandating people to commute by car, this is the UK, they have public transport

        • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          174·
          4 个月前

          By using it as a reply and an excuse, it implies it alleviates concerns.

          • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
            418·
            4 个月前

            Excuse?

            I simply pointed out a ridiculous statement, not that I think the policy Rockstar is pushing is good.

    • Frogster8@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      4 个月前

      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.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        420·
        4 个月前

        I never claimed it was feasable for everyone, but neither are Rockstar forcing everyone to drive

        • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          52·
          4 个月前

          Nobody says they are. You brought it up. It was a general statement about the overall story, not this specific one.

          • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
            49·
            4 个月前

            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