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‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week
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How to lose top talent in one easy step. I'm hoping smaller startups are taking notes and hiring these guys for remote work.
IMO, this is where many of the top tech companies will struggle.
I work at a big tech company, and we've been bleeding talent over the last 18 months. Many senior and principal engineers have left to do their own thing, usually working on their own thing or for a startup. Many of those that were laid off have probably done the same, where there are opportunities. In the next few years, we'll see new tech take over, and many big companies becoming poorly-run dinosaurs - basically becoming the IBM's of the world...
Good.
My employer decided to embrace WFH from the top down. They are not renewing leases for sales spaces (easiest since they are not tied to labs) and are slowly crunching down to only what need to be in person - R&D and the guys that go out in the field. They do need large warehouse space for multiple 18 wheeler trucks and all the equipment.
Right now we do the stupid hybrid thing, but I just accept it because it’s one day a week and my boss^2 buys us all lunch. He is a really smart Boomer that is lonely and also helps us solve a lot of engineering issues so it is what it is.
Oh baby, they don't see it as losing talent, they want this people to resign so they don't have to use the word layoff.
When you layoff you have the option to lay off what you perceive as your least valuable talent. When you make the workplace less desirable you lose your best talent.
That's not really accurate. Layoffs tend to be at a senior leadership level, and I'd be shocked if they had an idea of IC performance. Most, if not all layoffs in tech at large companies have been team/org-based, and isn't a reflection of ability.
But the ones who stay are the ones most likely to tolerate your bullshit and obey without questioning. Which talent do you think management values the most?
Ultimately they value money. Losing good talent doesn't hurt short term in the short term you are selling the work of the people you just got rid of. It will become apparent when you start falling behind on projections or at worst when you make less money on your next round of games so watch TTWO in 3-5 years
Pssst, that's next quarter's problem. This quarter is up 12% profit because of less salaries. Line goes up.
/s
They haven't had any talent in about a decade.
Yeah rdr2 was sooooo bad, right?
The open world was enjoyable. The story and gameplay were tedious and boring.
lol what. The storytelling was amazing. If anything, yeah there are some problems with the mission mechanics, but the character story of Arthur and his overcoming his near-lifelong grooming to be a killer when he’s actually a good man, his struggle between his loyalty to helping others while being a contradiction of a man as he robs and kills, his past chasing him down no matter how far he runs a metaphor for he, himself, running from who he is—whether that is a good man or a bad man—and having his transgression ultimately kill him while he sacrifices himself for a brother and his chosen family, even though it’s all in vain and ultimately not enough because he was dying as is, the weight of his sins dragging him to an early death?
Not to mention the overarching theme of statism, anarchism, freedom. The Pinkertons an excellent chosen villain, the arm of the wealthy while these outlaws try to make a free life for themselves, so-called civilization killing the world around them while they are the ones treated as if they’re crazy? Dutch revealing himself over time to not be a freedom fighter but another greedy piece of shit who used the people around him as cannon fodder for his own ends? Trying to string the gang along as long as possible? His actions speaking louder than his words but he had somehow gotten them all to ignore his actions—and their own—in favor of the lies coming out of his mouth? Or were they lies at all? Were they his true beliefs and he was just led astray as he got older and let the power go to his head? Power corrupting.
The missions are too rigid, the motivation for the each being a little repetitive, but you really can’t knock the storytelling.
I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. I thought it was boring, rigid, repetitive and unengaging.
Did you beat the game?
I agree with this guy that it may be the best Western ever written.
Lol yeah I beat it. I also unlocked the G-man suit in the game before it. I played a shit ton of RDO too, although it was sorely lacking.
Yeah, RDO is pretty much garbage. Blatant cash grab.
Which sucks because it had crazy potential.