Following a high-profile lawsuit against Electronic Arts, the video game industry's leading recruitment firms have formed a new trade group.
The goal of the new Professional Electronic Entertainment Recruiters (
PEER) is to establish and maintain ethical work standards and optimum recruiting services for game industry developers, publishers and related industry companies.
With an aging work force of video game creators, the game industry is going through growing pains similar to what Hollywood once experienced. Today there are more programmers, artists and producers in their 30s, 40s and 50s, many with families, who are looking for
better pay, fewer work hours and improved benefits. PEER will focus on representing these experienced programmers.
At the same time, video game publishers are spending more money on bigger games and trying to meet tight deadlines to satisfy shareholders and earn bigger profits. The result has been a tumultuous tug-of-war that led to a
class-action suit against Electronic Arts last year that accused the video game giant of requiring its employees to work overtime without compensation.
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