The employees of the firm FromSoftwarewhich recently brought the acclaimed masterpiece to market Elden Ringthey reported poor working conditions and poor wages.
FromSoftware represents one of the software development companies most appreciated in the video game industry and beyond Elden Ringhe recently realized too Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, incredibly well received by fans and critics alike. Reports of poor working conditions have arrived from both current and former employeesand were posted on the popular Career Connection job board.
Some of the messages go back over 10 years, suggesting that the condition of the company has remained essentially the same over time, and there have been no improvements for workers. FromSoftware has a rating of 2.6 stars on a scale of 0 to 5.0 stars on Career Connection.
Employees rated the company with a poor score of 2.2 for job satisfaction, putting a nice instead 4.2 on the intensity and amount of work required, a 2.6 for the management of stress and only 1.9 for paywhich does not seem to be absolutely up to the performance required.
The average annual income is only 3.4 million yenwhich are equivalent to approx $ 29,000very little considering that the company is based in Tokyo, a city famous for its very high cost of living. A FromSoftware programmer wrote about wages and the amount of hours required of employees:
The compensation amount is very low in terms of workload. The company abandonment rate, on the other hand, is extremely high.
Employees reported doing, on average, 40 hours of overtime per month. For the women working conditions are even more precarious. One designer said:
There are no special treatments for pregnancies and there is no childcare. Most women who are about to give birth have to leave the company.
Additionally, another employee said there have been cases of sexual harassment and abuse in the past. The women who work for FromSoftware are few, so now it would seem that the male employees do a lot of attention to protect their well-being as much as possible.
This news is part of a delicate framework on the debate on working conditions in video game development companies, which started with Activision Blizzard. The latter is still in the spotlight today due to numerous allegations of gender disparity, workplace harassment and mistreatment of pregnant women.
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