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    • 01/10/2007 at 6:08 pm #6307
      Anonymous
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      Free Radical paying its staff overtime.
      Great! Hope it catches on industry wide.

      http://www.developmag.com/news/28546/Free-Radical-paying-its-staff-overtime

    • 01/10/2007 at 6:20 pm #38715
      Anonymous
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      go free radical. one of me favourite studios. GIVE ME HAZE NOW. i want it and i want it NOW

    • 01/10/2007 at 7:39 pm #38716
      Anonymous
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      go free radical. one of me favourite studios. GIVE ME HAZE NOW. i want it and i want it NOW[/quote:8fe750605b]

      Not entirely new, we’ve been doing it at SRS for the past 12 months if not longer. But lets hope it does catch on with other place.

    • 02/10/2007 at 11:30 am #38722
      Aphra K
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      well we know which companies please will want to work for then.

      Spread the word and other companies might feel like they have to pay overtime..

      Aphra.

    • 02/10/2007 at 12:20 pm #38725
      Anonymous
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      Also Free Radical might be paying overtime, but you might want to read the small print.
      Free Radical used to pay a 10% salary completion bonus to the staff. Now this is replaced with overtime pay. So, on completion in order to get the bonus you would have previously got, you are required to work 10% longer than you were, so you’re probably worse off… Promises of overtime pay aren’t always good…

    • 02/10/2007 at 12:26 pm #38726
      Anonymous
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      But surely it discourages the concept of crunch time, which is a good thing anyway, and maybe worth getting paid a bit less money

    • 02/10/2007 at 12:53 pm #38727
      Anonymous
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      It also means you get less bonus.

      Crunch should be discouraged anyway, giving less bonus isn’t the way to do it.

    • 10/10/2007 at 12:06 pm #38831
      Anonymous
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      The problem is that there is no incentive in most studios *not* to have people in until all hours. As Kentaree suggested, it might discourage managers from keeping people in for no good reason… or to manage their projects in a vaguely structured manner. I don’t know exactly how this bonus thing works, but from my experience I have spent at least 10% of my time doing unpaid overtime.

      Ed

    • 10/10/2007 at 12:11 pm #38832
      Anonymous
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      Umm…except of course staff turn-over, bad moral, lack of caring, bad work practices, problems hiring future staff…

    • 10/10/2007 at 2:27 pm #38833
      Anonymous
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      Bizzare Creations give overtime and (good) bonuses.

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