While that’s good the grass is not always greener the amount of time they are required to be at the office from a cultural pressure. To the point dying at work is a trope in anime.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by inari@piefed.zip to gaming@beehaw.org
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agentTeiko@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Datz@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t Nintendo actually respect it’s devs, and avoids rushing games?
slag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japan)
While specifics may vary from workplace to workplace and company to company, a typical practice at a black company is to hire a large number of young employees and then force them to work large amounts of overtime without overtime pay. Conditions are poor, and workers are subjected to verbal abuse and “power harassment” (bullying) by their superiors.[1] In order to make the employees stay, superiors of black companies would often threaten young employees with disrepute if they chose to quit.
JillyB@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
This is the norm in Japanese offices. I worked for 2 years in Japan in an office. Officially we were a white company and weren’t allowed to work overtime. However, we would get monthly emails from the office manager detailing everyone’s exact amount of overtime. Even though we were salary, we had to clock in and out to make sure we didn’t work overtime. The nominal reason for these emails was to tell people to lower their overtime since it wasn’t allowed. Those emails had the actual effect of ranking everyone by how much overtime they had worked and pressuring people with lower numbers to work later. People would regularly leave the office around 9 or 10pm. All hiring is done April 1st when a large cohort of college grads come in and they are expected to work there for life.
To be classified as a black company, and be named and shamed by the government, you have to like…cause a high profile suicide or something.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
They didn’t get swept up in the live-service trend
I guess by “didn’t get swept up” the author meant these companies didn’t go all-in like western studios, because all 3 have their portion of f2p mobile crap, with Konami being the worst offender with, PES Mobile, eFootball and others.
I suppose another big difference is shareholder expectation. In the US, if you don’t grow every quarter, you’re dead.
farmgineer@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
Japanese co.pa ies can’t lay off permanent employees without triggering things like hiring freezes and other consequences. They’re usually put in shit jobs to force them to quit (though this can be illegal) or are offered a buyout for several months of salary to quit.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
offered a buyout for several months of salary to quit.
That’s actually what I understand a layoff is. The company must compensate for some time in relation to the antiquity of the working relationship.
You might be referring to a firing? That’s when the company doesn’t need to compensate you because you fucked up or something. Where I live, Spain, firing someone is very hard but laying someone off isn’t.
farmgineer@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
If a company wants to get rid of a permanent employee, they have very limited tools when it’s non-consential. If they claim it’s financial, they have to (in theory at least) prove that to unilaterally dismiss and that can come with the burden of freezing hiring and other things.
To unilaterally dismiss otherwise, they need to prove gross/malicious bad conduct, performance problems (this still requires a long PIP process), or reassign the employee somewhere and have the employee refuse. For the last one, it can’t legally be too onerous to on the employee, but case precedent is hit or miss if it makes it to court. As I understand, most prefer to settle out of court and pay the employee to go away.
In my mind, layoffs are for downsizing head count rather than firing which is targeted to that employee.
As I understand it, certain numbers of actions to reduce headcount can also trigger things like hiring freezes, but I don’t know much about that.
sompreno@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Don’t Japanese companies outsource more labour and thus don’t require larger teams
inari@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
The larger companies, including international ones, often outsource work to temp worker companies, where people can be let go fairly easily.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
also, plants grow better with water and sunshine in good measure, and a you are more healthy if you don’t eat burger every day.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
yea but the companies are mostly stagnant because of that too.
helix@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
As opposed to the slop the other companies create because everyone on the team is new and didn’t have time to do anything, so they just use AI?
deeprlyeh@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Japanese regulation prevent gross disparities in salary. Executives are also directly responsible for failures of their workers.
danielfm123@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Executives get 30 million for bring DEI policies and EGS money.
kiarash@lemmychan.org 2 weeks ago
Americans have shitty companies that make shitty products because Americans are cattle that will buy whatever they’re told to without question.
And they get mad at anyone who calls it out.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Imagine having a dedicated work force that wasn’t fighting to put food in the table or navigate whether they have healthcare.
Like… you’re done developing Halo Campaign Evolved and now you need to immediately fix uo your resume and start interviewing (fuck your doctors appointment next month) - instead of working on a new game. What a waste of everyone’s energy