RTO enforced company-wide by upper management. All employees will be required to comply to a new 3 days / week policy (with two fixed days and a third day that can be chosen by the employee). This includes employees who decided to move or even purchase a home farther from the city, due to previous WFH policy allowing this. Those employees are told to either sell their home to move closer, endure the brutal commutes (2+ hours one way), or simply leave the company. Not a single exception is allowed outside of people in categories protected by law (disabilities & such).
This is enforced despite the international collaboration culture that was firmly in place. Many employees who entirely work with people located in other studios will need to endure traffic, expensive parking, and hours of time wasted only to then sit at their desk and join a Microsoft Teams meeting with coworkers overseas from a loud open office environment.
Other benefits were cut during this announcement as well. A "work from anywhere" policy that allowed you to work up to a few weeks while traveling anywhere in the world was squashed entirely.
They are also leaving the door open for adding to the 3/days per week. It is entirely possible for the RTO mandate to get worse in the future (4 days/week or even full in-office).
Absolutely nothing positive was offered to employees to counteract the negative impact of the RTO.
To top it off, everyone is worried over the company's poor current state. Stock is slumping. Star Wars Outlaws struggled to sell well. XDefiant is dying out. The only thing on the horizon right now is Assassin's Creed Shadows, and it has already been surrounded by controversy (whether justifiably so or not). This is weighing heavily on everyone's minds.
Given all of this, it's really difficult to recommend this company to anyone right now.
