If any of them are Gen Z, then good riddance. A report out this week says that 75% of people in charge of hiring will NOT hire GenZ people. Because they come in trying to take over the place, trying to make their own hours, and the employers never know when one of them will get offended. Its a shame that collages are churning out these types of folks.
And that’s a good question for the employer to answer. But I can’t answer for them. I don’t work there. I’m not privy to their data that shows in person is better or worse.
It’s not just a matter of convenience you have to have the full picture.
I wouldn’t be surprised if employees are also leaving because of a toxic relationship with upper management. Somewhere along the lines of meeting impossible launch deadlines, arms being twisted to continue adding fomo timegates as much as possible, and intentionally understaffing to keep revenue stable rather than investing in more personnel to raise the value of the game.
Sending out an employee daily to present news on a whole lotta nothing, to “control the narrative” as per bobby’s own words, probably is hurting the team as well.
You really can’t say that without evidence that Blizz intentionally misled people. It may not be everyone’s ideal, but if Blizz did what every company I’ve seen did and said “we’re currently WFH but may return to full time onsite work at some point,” it’s hardly unethical for them to call folks back.
I’m all for WFH for anyone who’s job supports it, but at some point there has to be accountability on the employee who agreed to take the job. If it’s not in writing in your offer/contract, don’t count on it.
Probably Texas.
On the upside, it wouldn’t be winter 10 months of the year.
Old blizzard devs cared about the games they created, their passion showed in the final product, they played their own games, they were fun.
New blizzard doesn’t care about the game, it’s a job, they don’t play, they barely test, they do the bare minimum needed to milk the last remaining die hard subs dry. They can all go.
more people should be concerned about this as this could effect the quality of the game. we’re possibly losing a lot of good devs trying to push through but if they can’t come in then we may have a random from irvine who is just a lowly intern that only played fortnite. can’t wait to see the outcome of this in about 6 months to a year when the game takes a possible nosedive and we got people making jokes about it right now lol