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BC also has rules that exempt tech employees from overtime protection. Hence why the games industry tends to do a lot of work here.

• deanCommie 4y ago
  What a weird comment on this site especially. 99% of tech work is salary and now also stock-based. Overtime protection is simply not relevant, because our work is not hourly. We can talk about whether this is a good or bad thing and the general culture of crunch in the tech industry, but it's not BC-specific, and also arguably got WAY better since the pandemic
• upupandup 4y ago
  even that is gone. when montreal and ontario offers significant tax rebates, it just doesn't make sense to do it in vancouver
  • Tiktaalik 4y ago
    Games isn't gone. It's doing better than ever in Vancouver. EA is so bursting at the seams due to growth that they're expanding to a new City of Vancouver studio.
    • upupandup 4y ago
      Clearly big name studios are fighting each other to move to Vancouver /s