Eidos Montreal shifts to a four-day working week

(Image credit: Square Enix)

Eidos Montreal, the studio apartment presently practical along Square Enix's Guardians of the Galaxy adaptation, has announced it's begun transitioning towards a four solar day working hebdomad.

The developer broke the news in a blog post now, revealing staff receive already begun fashioning the swop from a 40-hour ferment calendar week to 32-hour weeks, final studios on Fridays without whatsoever change in salaries. In a Q&adenosine monophosphate;A, the developer notes that it doesn't want to compress pentad years worth of form into four, instead hoping the transition forces the studio to better focus its time.

"The idea is non to condense the working hours into 4 years, but rather to review our ways of doing things and our quality time invested, with the aim of working better! Above all, we want to increase the productivity and well-organism of our employees.

"Concretely, we want to reduce the time busy, but addition the quality of this time invested, whether it's on a squad-basis or for the studio every bit a whole. A promising right balance for everything!"

Guardians of the Galaxy game Star Lord — (Image credit: Square up Enix)

4 twenty-four hours piece of work weeks have been a broader cultural issue for both time, single accelerated aside the experience of the pandemic. A recent trial run in Iceland launch shorter work weeks to be an "overwhelming winner", giving workers more sentence to themselves without sacrificing productiveness. Shorter work weeks besides aid curb overwork and crunch, something the games manufacture is notoriously troubled with.

Eidos International Relations and Security Network't the first studio apartment to test four-day work weeks. Bugsnax developer Young Horses recently made the move to shorter weeks, alongside other smaller studios like Dice Gute Fabrik and KO_OP. But Eidos Montreal is the freshman developer of its size to make the jump, and may make up in the vanguard of a broader industry propel to healthier work structures.

Unfortunately, reports from a Montreal-based indie developer propose that this quatern-day week doesn't apply to QA at Eidos, who as contractors are technically not employees. I've reached bent Eidos Montreal for comment.

I am audience from many folks privately that this naturally doesn't apply to the QA staff World Health Organization are non technically Eidos Montreal employees despite working in the same building.October 7, 2021

Still, it's a step towards a Thomas More balanced work structure, and hopefully one that will supporte ensure Guardian's of the Galaxy's wonderfully fearful house vacation volition be the best superhero whop information technology can possibly comprise.

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