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600 Activision QA employees unionized and recognized by Microsoft

600 Activision QA employees unionized and recognized by Microsoft

Quality Assurance Personnel activision Member of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and endorsed by Microsoft. About 600 QA workers have signed union authorization cards or expressed their desire for union representation through an online portal. They are the first groups organized at Activision Blizzard under the neutrality agreement between the CWA and Microsoft. ...

600 Activision QA employees vote to form the largest video game union to date

600 Activision QA employees vote to form the largest video game union to date

Hundreds of Activision quality assurance employees are joining the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union includes approximately 600 Activision central quality assurance employees in three locations: Austin, Texas; Eden Prairie, Minn.; and El Segundo, California. This makes the union, called Activision Quality Assurance United (CWA), the largest group of unionized video game workers in ...

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Grand Theft Auto VI: Employees fear return to crunch culture

Grand Theft Auto VI: Employees fear return to crunch culture

Grand Theft Auto VI is finally scheduled to be released sometime in 2025. After a few leaks, there are some security concerns at the Rockstar Games studio and therefore the management decided on a questionable policy: From April, the team should completely forego working from home. Specifically, employees will be encouraged to return to the ...

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Employees have to go back to the office full time

Employees have to go back to the office full time

For productivity and safety reasons, all home office employees were ordered back to the office for Grand Theft Auto VI. The hybrid working model at Rockstar Games will end in April. As part of work on Grand Theft Auto VI, all employees will be required to return to the office full-time and will no longer ...

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PlayStation will lay off 900 employees, several studios affected

PlayStation will lay off 900 employees, several studios affected

We believed that 2023 had been the worst year for video games, but 2024 is being even worse. To the massive layoffs of almost 2000 people at Microsoft, over 500 at Riot Games, SEGA and other companies are now joined by another one. Sony Interactive Entertainment announced layoffs of around 900 employees, affecting several PlayStation ...