Union criticizes Rockstar decision to call workers back to the office all week

Rockstar Games, the developer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, on February 28, 2024, announced that its workers will have to return to the office five days a week starting on April 15, 2024. Opportunities to work from home, which became a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, have become rarer at the studio ever since the crisis ended. Earlier, Rockstar mandated that workers had to be in the office for at least three days a week. On behalf of its members working at Rockstar, the British IWGB Game Workers Union criticized this decision, citing some of them as calling the move “reckless decision making” and accusing the studio of “broken promises.” That accusation refers to an email allegedly sent out by Rockstar to all employees last year on the occasion of calling workers back to the office for three days a week, which seems to have stated: “This isn’t our first step to 5 days a week. No one wants to go back to the old way of working.” “Workers criticizing the move have pointed to th