I've been working in game development as a software engineer for going on seven years and am happy to see this initiative. Unions nothwithstanding there is plen

I've been working in game development as a software engineer for going on seven years and am happy to see this initiative. Unions nothwithstanding there is plenty of variation in the working conditions throughout the industry. The best empirical reflection of that is the annual IGDA surveys: https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.igda.org/resource/resmgr/2017_DSS_/!IGDA_DSS_2017_SummaryReport.pdf https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.igda.org/resource/resmgr/2017_.... If you find yourself at a studio with poor working conditions, know that there are plenty of studios that better respect you and your time. Hopefully unionization, or at least the threat of it, will raise the floor on the conditions and compensation for the employees most often exploited: contractors generally and QA specifically.