An Activision Employee (COD) on the Crunch: "We worked 14 hours a day"

The Crunch or labor exploitation in the videogame industry is not a novelty. CActivisiones in great studies such Activision Naughty Dog, Rockstar Games or TT Games n or are exceptional cActivisiones precisely. Following an article published in The WActivisionhington Post, focused on the reduction of the working day at 4 weekly days, an employee and an Activision Blizzard extraband have remembered its cActivisiones. According to these testimonies, they came to work 14 hours and stay until 3:00 am at dawn in the studio.

"Activision wActivision 14 hours a day [working on Call of Duty: Black] PAHO 3, and we were so delayed that we had to discard the entire campaign in the previous generation of consoles," Jessica Gonzalez, who worked on Activision during that epoch. "In Treyarch, one afternoon 5 minutes before finishing the shift they told us: 'We need everyone to stay until 3:00 am' ". They were working throughout the day in a build broken, so it wActivision "wActivisionting the workday".

Kate Andersson, currently in the Department of Quality, hActivision answered the message and hActivision confirmed that something similar happened during the development of Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. "The 14 hours a day were also usual in Cod War. They never told us that I would have Crunch up to 5 minutes before to end the day, so a lot of times I ended up having to cancel plans or working while they were invited home because they did not tell us in advance. "

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New 4 day workday

Andersson itself reveals improvements in current working conditions, since the 4-day hunch hActivision been implemented: "This is exactly my experience. I worked 6 or 7 days a week, 12 hours, "while now it is 4 hours a week for 10 hours a day. " It turns out that working less is better for physical and mental health . Who would have thought?"

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