Even a headcount of 1000 at SV tech salary levels (which Poland definitely does not have) would barely make a dent. Why cut costs now?
>[...] but the rate of production created a "crunch time" culture behind the scenes, leaving poor company morale [...]
>Internal restructuring led to a layoff of 25% of the company's staff in November 2017 [...]
>In the midst of releasing The Walking Dead: The Final Season, the company was forced to initiate a "majority studio closure" after their last investor had pulled out of funding. Telltale announced on September 21, 2018, that it had let go of all but 25 of its staff as part of this closure [...]
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/cd-projekt-red-organ...
The wording in the statement really sounds like the typical project based employment thing. Seems like their pipeline got out of wack (maybe the CP fixes and updates?), and they're downgrading sales estimates on future projects, and suddenly you have less slack than before.
Sucks. Wish the best for the devs (and their new union) and the company.
Game companies and small agencies are the exception actually.
If you do IT at a big German company, you will most likely be covered by union agreements, even if not being part of one.
More to the point: IT job market in Poland is based on freelance (B2B) contracts. The fact that CD Projekt staff can unionize proves that they were mostly employed on Contract of Employment. Which means that all the best stuff have already left CD Projekt long time ago, because no self-respecting programmer would work on Contract of Employment when they can make twice the money as a freelancer.
Huh? A plethora of successful companies in established industries has worker unions - virtually all manufacturing companies, but also service (airlines etc), and so on.
IT industry was exception to the rule so far.
There are differences between B2B and CoE, yet it is definitely not 2x, unless you are doing overemployment.
Probably something like 1/3. It is lowered by "author's costs": tax deductible costs and if you're below specific age, then taxes work in a different way for you on CoE (0% tax below age 26).
So in general saying that B2B is always better than CoE is imo bullshit. A lot of depends on your situation and also on the agreements that you have with your 'customer'.
There's additional dynamic that may be taken into consideration - when you're on CoE it is harder to fire you and it guarantees you a month or three of safety
Hard disagree.
