As video game companies reckon with the debate over remote work, some of 2023’s best and biggest games were made by developers who were allowed to ditch the commute. This week’s newsletter: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Some of This Year’s Biggest Video Games Were Made From Home

The debate over whether great video games can be made remotely isn’t much of a debate at all

Remote work in general, for all industries, is beneficial to everyone involved. Better work-life balance for employees. Potentially better work for the employer since the employees are in a better frame of mind. Better for the environment by taking commuters off the street. Better for all!

I swear Insomniac would let you work on the Moon if you got a decent wi-fi connection

I do wonder how much good faith should be assumed in the remote work debates. When a company goes from publicly supporting WFH to mandating RTO, they're basically subjecting a huge portion of their employees to constructive dismissal. It sounds a lot like cover for layoffs, doesn't it?